Reluctant Heroes

Reluctant Heroes
Australian daybill poster
Directed by	Jack Raymond
Produced by	Henry Halstead (as Henry Halsted)
Written by	Colin Morris
Based on	the play Reluctant Heroes by Colin Morris
Starring	Ronald Shiner Derek Farr Christine Norden
Music by	Tony Lowry
Cinematography	James Wilson
Edited by	Helen Wiggins
Production company	Henry Halstead Productions (as Byron Films)
Distributed by	Associated British-Pathé (UK)
Release date	1951
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Reluctant Heroes is a 1951 British comedy filmed in Technicolor. It is based on the farce by Colin Morris. Directed by Jack Raymond, it stars Ronald Shiner as Sergeant Bell or as Sergeant Able. It was produced by Henry Halsted and Byron Film. The play, which had premiered at the Whitehall Theatre the previous year, was the first of the Brian Rix company's Whitehall farces.

This comedy is set in an army boot camp. It displays a drill sergeant who must somehow turn an inept group of recruits into real soldiers.

The film is listed in the 12 most popular films at the British box-office in 1952, in an article in the Sydney Sunday Herald that cited Ronald Shiner as the UK's favourite film star of the year. Brian Rix asserts in his autobiography that it was the UK's top box office film of the year.