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Operation Mad Ball is a 1957 American military comedy from Columbia Pictures, produced by Jed Harris, directed by Richard Quine, that stars Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant, Arthur O'Connell, and Mickey Rooney.
With Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant, Arthur O'Connell. In post-WWII France, U.S. Army hospital Private Hogan and Captain Lock try to outwit each other on issues such as wooing pretty nurses, accounting for missing medical supplies, organizing unauthorized dances, and influencing their C.O.
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Operation Mad Ball is sometimes called a precursor to Robert Altman's M*A*S*H (1970), but the medical unit setting is about the only common thread. The satiric black comedy M*A*S*H shows medical officers rebelling in wartime; Operation Mad Ball is among those service comedies that play it safe by having the high jinks occur in peacetime.
Nov 6, 2019 · Always one to skirt the rules, Hogan, with the help of his friend Cpl. Bohun (Dick York), cooks up a scheme to throw a clandestine ball for all the soldiers and nurses.
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Feb 28, 2021 · The original trailer in high definition of Operation Mad Ball directed by Richard Quine. Starring Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs and Kathryn Grant.Blu-ray (Amazon...
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.
OPERATION MAD BALL. This hilarious comedy is about a party being planned by a group of enlisted men led by Lemmon, and their efforts to keep the fact a secret from an obnoxious busy-body officer Ernie Kovacs.
A long with his fellow enlisted men and the nurses stationed at a hospital in postwar France, Private Al Hogan (Oscar® winner Jack Lemmon) has grown bored. To remedy this problem and jumpstart a romance with Army Nurse Lt. Betty Bixby (Kathryn Grant), Hogan plans to host a Mad Ball.
Mar 22, 2019 · When a fellow private falls for a nurse, Hogan uses it as an excuse to play Cupid, by planning a ball. However, this is easier said than done. The machinations the men go through to secretly secure the site and the resources rivals a legitimate complex military mission.
