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10 June 1960 (West Germany) morePlot Keywords:
Hotel
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Military
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Beautiful Woman
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Beer
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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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Finland:SFun Stuff
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Hap Cosgrove: Welcome to Shima.Gus Brubaker: Oh, thank you.
Hap Cosgrove: How d'ya like it?
Gus Brubaker: Well, I'm not too sure yet.
Hap Cosgrove: I'll save ya the trouble. You heard of hell? Well, when it first got started it was a new idea, so they hadda test it out. This here island is the place they picked.
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I've not read the Howard Singer novel, but seeing this film is going to send me straight to the library for it. I watched this on a whim, because I wanted to see an Ernie Kovacs film performance different from his turn in "Bell, Book, and Candle." The cast in this film--from Kovacs, to newcomer Dick Shawn, to the marvelous Marvin Kaplan, to a wonderfully subdued Jack Warden--is top-notch, and the writing is just splendid. The film takes on military bureaucracy, sexual mores, international relations, postwar backlash, and mixes it all up with the sort of hijinks that Sergeant Bilko was best known for. It's sheer delight.
Shawn is the victim of a bureaucratic snafu: listed as dead after having spent 2 years in a German P.O.W. camp, the Air Force decides to issue him a new serial number instead of reinstating his old one, then discharges him the next day. As a result, with only one day's service on his record, Shawn is re-drafted 7 years after his official discharge, and stationed on the remote Japanese island of Shima, where the hostile inhabitants still have a shrine to a downed Japanese plane.
The air base C.O. is a cavalier flyboy, played by Ernie Kovacs, with the only other real authority being the doctor, played by Jack Warden. The 100 men stationed there are bored out of their skulls (Don Knotts has a nice turn as the activities counselor), and with Shawn's arrival a plot is hatched to keep the men occupied, improve local relations, and dispose of a great deal of G.I. surplus material.
The movie is a little on the long side, and the subplot with the female lieutenant seems a little forced, but the action and snappy dialogue will keep you engrossed throughout.
Sadly, this film is not available on VHS or DVD, which is a crying shame. Watch for it on television; you won't regret it.