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NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS
May 25, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Here’s a much lighter movie than most of this weekend’s Memorial Day-related fare. Andy Griffith stars as a simple farm boy who joins the Air Force, dons a uniform and wreaks simple havoc with his commanding officer. This 1958 movie basically inspired, with a change to the Marine Corps, that Jim Nabors sitcom of the Sixties, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. – which, it should be noted, was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show. Let the circle be unbroken…

 
 
 
 
 
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