Operation Mad Ball (1957)

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Written by Arthur Carter

Directed by Richard Quine

Running Time: 120 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1957

Rating: U Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Black and White

Richard Quine's comedy, with Jack Lemmon in his first starring role as Private Hogan, one of a group of bored GIs stationed at a medical centre in France. A party with the nurses would raise morale but the nurses are officers and fraternising with the men is forbidden. But Hogan isn't going to let a detail like that stand in his way and with the help of Sergeant Skibo, a fixer and Mme LaFour, a hotel owner who likes helping GIs - for a price, he sets out to make the dream a reality.

Cast

Image for Jack LemmonJack LemmonPvt. Hogan
Ernie KovacsCapt. Paul Locke
Kathryn GrantLt. Betty Bixby
Arthur O'ConnellCol. Rousch
Image for Mickey RooneyMickey RooneyMSgt. Yancy Skibo
Dick YorkCpl. Bohun
James DarrenPvt. Widowskas
Roger SmithCpl. Berryman
William LesliePvt. Grimes
Sheridan ComerateSgt. Wilson
L.Q. JonesOzark
Jeanne ManetMadame LaFour

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