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10 June 1960 (West Germany)
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Hotel
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Beautiful Woman
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Based On Novel
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ernie Kovacs | ... | Capt. Charlie Stark | |
| Dick Shawn | ... | Gus Brubaker | |
| Margo Moore | ... | Lt. Nora McKay | |
| Jack Warden | ... | Captain Dave 'Doc' Farrington | |
| Nobu McCarthy | ... | Ume Tanaka (as Nobu Atsumi McCarthy) | |
| Don Knotts | ... | Sgt. Percy Warren | |
| Robert Strauss | ... | Sgt. Sam Weiscoff | |
| Noreen Nash | ... | Marge Brubaker | |
| Parley Baer | ... | Col. Archie Hollingsworth | |
| Robert Emhardt | ... | Joab Martinson | |
| Marvin Kaplan | ... | Hap Cosgrove | |
| Tommy Nishimura | ... | Pvt. Jim Harigawa | |
| Raymond Bailey | ... | Gen. Weigang | |
| Robert Burton | ... | Col. Dowling | |
| Frank Behrens | ... | Maj. Bigelow |
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126 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Lt. Nora McKay:
Marriage is out.
Capt. Charlie Stark: What's so out about it?
Lt. Nora McKay: You're a sky tramp.
Capt. Charlie Stark: No, but that's all over! I'm gonna stick in this Air Force.
Lt. Nora McKay: Well, "stick" is the right word! Why do you think you're still a captain?
Capt. Charlie Stark: I guess I just can't get any generals to die.
Lt. Nora McKay: Oh, it's because you're irresponsible and they know it. Like that time in Washington - they want officers, not jockeys!
Capt. Charlie Stark: Great. Once in my life I buzz a little building. How'd I know it was the Supreme Court?
Lt. Nora McKay: Well, if you had any sense, you'd stop buzzing around in airplanes. You'd take a desk job.
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Capt. Charlie Stark: What's so out about it?
Lt. Nora McKay: You're a sky tramp.
Capt. Charlie Stark: No, but that's all over! I'm gonna stick in this Air Force.
Lt. Nora McKay: Well, "stick" is the right word! Why do you think you're still a captain?
Capt. Charlie Stark: I guess I just can't get any generals to die.
Lt. Nora McKay: Oh, it's because you're irresponsible and they know it. Like that time in Washington - they want officers, not jockeys!
Capt. Charlie Stark: Great. Once in my life I buzz a little building. How'd I know it was the Supreme Court?
Lt. Nora McKay: Well, if you had any sense, you'd stop buzzing around in airplanes. You'd take a desk job.
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Referenced in Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
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Wake Me When It's Over
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The film parallels the book with a few risqué exceptions. What is unique is that even though major actors were picked for the movie they could not be closer to the character description from the 1959 book of the same name by Howard Singer.
Russ is a schnook. Therefore if something can go wrong it will. His wife is into insurance of all kinds. She wants him to get his GI insurance while he can. After she forces him to apply (schnook), he must explain that he has two serial numbers (schnook). When he was shot down over Germany he was presumed dead and needed a second number to get discharged (schnook). So naturally realizing that the (schnook) being in the service only one-day on the second serial number, is called up to finish his time.
He ends up on an island in the middle of the Sea of Japan. There he has a revelation that saves his sanity and that of 400 other servicemen. A plan so brilliant that I am not about to tell you what it is or how it is executed.
In the book the plan cured his shnookyness, in the movie it takes a trial. The cast includes Dick Shawn as the schnook and Ernie Kovacs as his commander and hotshot fighter pilot.
I can relate to this as I also have two serial numbers.