The movie is based on a book of the same name. Both the movie and the book is set in Callville. The author, Mac Hyman, was born and died in Cordele, Georgia. It isn't hard to see that "Callville" is just a play on the name of the author's hometown of "Cordele." Hyman was studying at Duke University when he left to serve his country in World War II in the Army Air Corps. After the war, he completed his studies at Duke and returned to Cordele. That was when Hyman wrote the novel. It was adapted for television first and then for Broadway and then the movie. Andy Griffith played Will Stockdale in all 3 versions. It was Griffith's second movie after "A Face in the Crowd."
Review of No Time for Sergeants
