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Gus Brubaker is a soldier who is mistakenly sent to a remote Japanese island where he builds a hotel with geisha girls. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more for this military spoof directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
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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.
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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A GI (Dick Shawn) talks his captain (Ernie Kovacs) into building an island resort out of war surplus.
- Comedy
- Ernie Kovacs
- Mervyn Leroy
A comedy film about a group of soldiers stationed in Japan during the Korean War. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers and other crew members who worked on this movie.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. 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.
