![]() There’s like one guy from the play who’s still alive that I interviewed and he said, ‘Oh, yeah, those two guys … that scene just crackled.’ And by the time they got together for the Griffith Show, surely Don understood - and I’m sure Andy did too - that they had the makings of a brilliant comedy team like a Martin and Lewis. They had an immediate kind of comedic duo sort of chemistry even then, which is why Don gets hired to do the film as well. You know, in the play No Time for Sergeants, they only had one or two scenes with each other, but they were so powerful together. The rest is history, because the connection between them was instant. Don saw that episode of Danny Thomas when he was playing bridge with Pat Harrington - television’s Schneider from One Day at a Time - and says, ‘Holy crap, that’s Andy!’ And then he calls him and suggests himself for Andy Taylor’s deputy and Andy thinks it’s a great idea. I give this video a Hup,Two.Three,Four Stars out of five.“Andy was probably playing it close to the vest that he was going to be doing this show. ![]() My only regret was that the pair never reprised their roles in a sequel. ![]() If you have lived life in the military or were around in the 50s or 60s, I think you would find Andy Grffith and Nick Adams make a strong comedic showing. For we see in No Time twhen we are able to laugh at the humorous side of uniform life, we are able to cope with the seriousness and stresses of war, be it hot or cold. Roberts or silliness of The Wackiest Ship In The Army, No Time For Sergeants demonstrates in many ways how and under what circumstances acronyms such as S.N.A.F.U. While lacking the heavy anti-war social commentary of the movie M.A.S.H., the zany comedy of Mr. I suggest that you watch it and judge for yourself. came as a spin-off of the Anday Griffith Show, I stll believe Gomer Pyle is actually the television incarnation of No Time. Contrary to the "experts" on Wikipedia who claim that Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. I am happy to see that this movie is available now on DVD and find that it still holds its own. I originally saw this movie as a child in a US Air Force base movie theater when it was first released around 1959 and still recall the reaction of the audience, comprised mostly of new airmen who were getting their basic training, was enjoyment and appreciation for the antics of No Time For Sergeants,and that humor in uniform was not the exclusive domain of the British in the Terry Thomas "Carry On" movies. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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