No Time for Sergeants is a 1958 American comedy film based on a play by Ira Levin, which was inspired by the original novel.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, it stars Andy Griffith and features Myron McCormick, Don Knotts and most of the original Broadway cast, joined by Murray Hamilton and Warner Bros. contract player Nick Adams.

Will Stockdale is a backwoods rube from Georgia with super strength and a weak mind who is drafted into the United States Air Force.

Other draftees being transported to basic training include dim Ben Whitledge and obnoxious bully Irving S. Blanchard.

At boot camp, Stockdale, merely by being himself, proceeds to make life miserable for the man in charge, Master Sergeant Orville C. King, a career hack who likes his barracks to be routine, quiet and calm.

King gets into hot water, however, when Stockdale reveals that the sergeant kept him on permanent bathroom duty while neglecting to have the recruit complete all of the required military exams.

They begin a barroom brawl with equally drunk infantrymen, but Stockdale leaves and returns to the base, avoiding the M.P.s.

After putting the plane on autopilot, the pilots fall asleep, and the airplane becomes lost at night over the atomic bomb test site at Yucca Flats, Nevada.