The first of six film collaborations between director Quine and star Jack Lemmon at Columbia, ending with the sublime How To Murder Your Wife, begins with an army comedy which has nothing to do with the TV hit show Hogan's Heroes. (The others were My Sister Eileen, It Happened to Jane, The Notorious Landlady and Bell, Book and Candle, three of which also teamed Lemmon with Ernie Kovacs).
Lemmon absolutely fits the bill as the go-to organizer of a dance between soldiers and (female) nurse officers. with his own eye on Kathryn Grant (also Anatomy of a Murder), abetted by Kovacs but ultimately supported by Arthur O'Connor. Mickey Rooney has a fun cameo. With Dick York, James Darren, Jeanne Manet and an uncredited William Hickey.
Written by Arthur Carter (from his unproduced play), Jed Harris and Blake Edwards. Photographed by Charles Lawton, edited by Charles Nelson, music by Charles Durning. It's quietly amusing.
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