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A resourceful airman (Shawn) gets assigned to a forgotten island installation in the Pacific. There he puts other apathetic airmen and locals to work building a popular hotel with abandoned government materials. However, the big brass don't take kindly to his enterprise.
Wake Me When It's Over: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, Margo Moore, Jack Warden. Gus Brubaker has been drafted... again. Due to a clerical error, Gus finds himself deployed to a little Japanese island where everyone is bored to death.
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- Comedy
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1960-06-10
Wake Me When It's Over 1960 2h 6m Comedy List Reviews 40% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings A GI (Dick Shawn) talks his captain (Ernie Kovacs) into building an island resort out of war...
- Comedy
- Ernie Kovacs
- Mervyn Leroy
A WW II veteran is sent back into the service due to some bureaucratic mistake. It is peace-time, and he's shipped off to a remote South Pacific island Naval radar station, where all the servicemen there are so bored and eccentric that he concocts an idea that they should turn the island into a...
- Mervyn Leroy, Stanley Hough
- Ernie Kovacs
Wake Me When It's Over is a 1960 DeLuxe Color comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Ernie Kovacs and Dick Shawn in CinemaScope. The screenplay concerns a World War II veteran who gets called back into service by mistake and sent to a dreary Pacific island.
1 ★★★★★ rating (2%) ★★★★★. Popular reviews. More. dirtylaundri ★★. Another overlong military comedy portraying the army as a chaotic system of bureaucratic rules blind to each other and to reason.
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Life Is a Circus. Gus Brubaker has been drafted... again. Due to a clerical error, Gus finds himself deployed to a little Japanese island where everyone is bored to death.