Ernie Kovacs
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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 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.
Brief Synopsis. 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 resort.
- Mervyn Leroy, Stanley Hough
- Ernie Kovacs
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Wake Me When It's Over is a 1960 DeLuxe Color comedy film starring Ernie Kovacs and Dick Shawn in CinemaScope. A World War II veteran gets called back into service by mistake and sent to a dreary Pacific island. It is based on the novel of the same name by Howard Singer.
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Wake Me When it's Over (1960) - Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, Jack Warden and Don Knotts in an aptly named 2 hour bore. The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!
Wake Me When It's Over is a zany service comedy in which Ernie Kovacs plays the latest in his long line of military captains. Kovacs and his men are stationed at a dead-end Japanese island. World War II vet Dick Shawn, redrafted through a clerical error, arrives on the island and decides to liven things up.
