Saturday 10 May 2014

Operation Mad Ball (1957 Richard Quine)

We thought we would be watching Good Neighbor Sam as the packaging described, but it was this instead.

Leading to spin-off series (and possibly the seed for MASH) Blake Edwards / Jed Harris / Arthur Carter (play) screenplay has wily Private Hogan setting up the mad ball of the title so the soldiers can spend time with officer nurses on an even footing. With Arthur O'Connell, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant, Mickey Rooney, Dick York, William Hickey.

Shot by Charles Lawton, music Charles Durning.

Good fun. Lemmon is energetic.

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