This 1958 movie is the second of four Andy Griffith movies shown tonight, and shows him in the role in which he starred – on stage and TV as well as film. In fact, TV came first: a 1955 U.S. Steel Hour production, televised live, with a script written by Ira Levin, later of Rosemary’s Baby fame. Griffith stars as a drawling, smiling, good ole country boy drafted into the Air Force, and bedeviling his sergeant – an early prototype for the Andy Griffith Show spinoff, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.  But after Griffith starred in the TV production, he repeated the same role on Broadway, and then, finally, three years after the live television play, starred in this 1958 movie version. Watch this tonight, then seek out the original TV version on DVD. It’s out there, and it’s even better.