The Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
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- Not Rated
- 1h 30min
- Comedy, Romance
- 18 Apr 1962 (USA)
- Movie
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Cast verified as complete
Jim Hutton | ... |
Second Lt. Merle Wye
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Paula Prentiss | ... |
Lt. Molly Blue
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Jack Carter | ... |
Lt. Billy Monk
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Jim Backus | ... |
Cmdr. Jeremiah Hammerslag
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Charles McGraw | ... |
Col. Charles Korotny
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Miyoshi Umeki | ... |
Akiko
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Marty Ingels | ... |
Yeoman Leo Buckles
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Lloyd Kino | ... |
Sgt. Jess Yomura
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Linda Wong | ... |
Michido
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Yoshio Yoda | ... |
Sgt. Roy Tada
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Yuki Shimoda | ... |
Kobayashi
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Richard Allan | ... |
Officer (uncredited)
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Argentina Brunetti | ... |
Nun (uncredited)
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John Burnside | ... |
Lieutenant (uncredited)
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Gene Coogan | ... |
Club Patron (uncredited)
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Bill Cord | ... |
Lieutenant (uncredited)
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Ken DuMain | ... |
Club Patron (uncredited)
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Edward Faulkner | ... |
Officer at Welcome Party (uncredited)
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John Hart | ... |
Lieutenant (uncredited)
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Shep Houghton | ... |
Club Patron (uncredited)
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Allen Jung | ... |
Minor Role (uncredited)
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Richard Kindelon | ... |
Club Patron (uncredited)
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Lee Krieger | ... |
Lt. Handy (uncredited)
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Audrey Lowell | ... |
Nurse (uncredited)
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Frank Maxwell | ... |
Col. Frank Delgan (uncredited)
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Addison Myers | ... |
Officer (uncredited)
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Tony Regan | ... |
Club Patron (uncredited)
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Max Reid | ... |
Bartender (uncredited)
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Bernard Sell | ... |
Club Patron (uncredited)
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Teru Shimada | ... |
Master of Ceremonies at Show (uncredited)
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Roy Taguchi | ... |
Japanese Prisoner (uncredited)
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Irene Tsu | ... |
Oriental Spy (uncredited)
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Harlan Warde | ... |
Doctor (uncredited)
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Frank Wilcox | ... |
General (uncredited)
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Grant Woods | ... |
Teammate (uncredited)
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Directed by
Richard Thorpe |
Written by
George Wells | ... | (screenplay by) |
Gordon Cotler | ... | (based on the novel "The Bottletop Affair" by) |
Produced by
Joe Pasternak | ... | producer (produced by) |
Music by
George Stoll |
Cinematography by
Robert J. Bronner | ... | director of photography (as Robert Bronner) |
Editing by
Richard W. Farrell |
Editorial Department
Charles K. Hagedon | ... | color consultant |
Art Direction by
George W. Davis | ||
Merrill Pye |
Set Decoration by
Henry Grace | ||
Otto Siegel |
Makeup Department
Mary Keats | ... | hair stylist |
John Truwe | ... | makeup artist |
William Tuttle | ... | makeup artist |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
William Shanks | ... | assistant director |
Sound Department
Franklin Milton | ... | recording supervisor |
Visual Effects by
A. Arnold Gillespie | ... | special visual effects |
Robert R. Hoag | ... | special visual effects |
Lee LeBlanc | ... | special visual effects |
Music Department
Albert Sendrey | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
Irving Aaronson | ... | assistant to producer |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1962) (United States) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1962) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1963) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- CBS (1967) (United States) (tv) (pan/scan)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Panavision (photographic lenses)
- Westrex Recording System (sound recording)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
1944. Hapless Second Lieutenant Merle Wye of the US army's intelligence service is dismayed that he has not seen any action - he imagining himself as a suave undercover agent, worming secrets out of exotic female spies - instead being confined to a desk job in Honolulu. For non-military reasons, Merle is assigned a new posting - his first field job - that on the South Pacific island of Rodahan. He eventually learns that both his job on Rodahan and the posting in general are rather innocuous, as the Americans liberated Rodahan from the Japanese eight months ago, there has been no action there ever since, and as such it is a rather quiet, idyllic locale. All the Japanese soldiers on the island surrendered at the time, that is all except one, a man named Kobayashi, who is unarmed and seen as being harmless because of it. Merle's job is to locate and bring in Kobayashi, solely because he has been pilfering luxury goods from the US army commissary and officers' quarters the last little while. Merle's task, however, does take on some urgency as his new superior officer, Colonel Charles Korotny, who sees Merle as being useless, threatens to ship him off to what is the remotest of the remote army outposts if he makes the Colonel look bad by not being able to achieve this one simple task. Merle's job is not made any easier by the presence of Navy Commander Jeremiah Hammerslag, also newly posted to the island and a man who is overly officious also to be rather useless, and the help of Merle's underling, Sergeant Roy Tada, who is more interested in the twelve women he is currently courting back home than he is with anything to do with the army, especially if those army tasks get himself killed. Through it all, Merle tries to bolster the nature of this job and its dangers to woo the woman of his dreams, army nurse Lieutenant Molly Blue, who he knew and basically dismissed while in college back in Kansas, but who has blossomed since, and as such can have her pick of any man she wants, most who outrank Merle. Written by Huggo |
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Taglines | It's the funniest service comedy since the War of 1812! See more » |
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Box Office
Budget | $1,020,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
Trivia | This is believed to be the first of a handful of films shot in the short lived Panacolor system. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer struck the U.S. release prints in their own lab under the Metrocolor label. See more » |
Goofs | When Lt. Wye is transferred to the island, the shoulder patch on his uniform changes to one signifying the U.S. Army's Ryukyu Command. This film is set during WWII and this patch did not appear until 1950 (although some references state it was unofficial as early as 1947). See more » |
Movie Connections | Referenced in Kitty Carlisle vs. Jack Carter: evening show (1962). See more » |
Soundtracks | The Horizontal Lieutenant See more » |
Quotes |
Lt. Molly Blue:
So I date a lot. I admit it. I'm shopping around. I'm 22, Merle. By the end of this war, I may be 30. Second Lt. Merle Wye: That's why I say, "Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may." Lt. Molly Blue: Oh, I wish I had a dollar for every time that's been suggested. You could at least be a little more original. See more » |