Wake Me When It's Over

Wake Me When It's Over Information

Wake Me When It's Over is a 1960 comedy film starring Ernie Kovacs and Dick Shawn. A World War II veteran gets drafted again by mistake and sent to a dreary Pacific island. It is based on the novel of the same name by Howard Singer.

Plot

Applying for insurance due him from wartime military service, Gus Brubaker is snagged in a red-tape foulup and ends up back in uniform, assigned to an island base near Japan.

Capt. Charlie Stark, a pilot, is in charge. His superiors have all but forgotten the base is still on the island. Gus gets to know Ume Tanaka, daughter of the village's mayor, who shows him a pool of natural hot springs. Gus and Charlie conspire to open a resort hotel, with Doc Farringtom scamming a journalist about the water's "healing powers."

No-nonsense Lt. Nora McKay arrives and ends up lending a hand, Charlie developing a romantic interest in her as well. When the journalist Martinson, feels betrayed, he writes a story painting the place as a den of sin.

Gus is court-martialed. A congressional panel from Washington, D.C., launches an investigation, and Charlie ends up buzzing the courthouse in his jet, everybody temporarily taking leave of their senses until the whole affair gets straightened out.

Cast

Ernie Kovacs as Captain Charlie Stark
Dick Shawn as Gus Brubaker
Margo Moore as Lieutenant Nora McKay
Jack Warden as Captain Dave "Doc" Farrington
Nobu McCarthy as Ume Tanaka (as Nobu Atsumi McCarthy)
Don Knotts as Sergeant Percy Warren
Robert Strauss as Sergeant Sam Weiscoff
Noreen Nash as Marge Brubaker
Parley Baer as Colonel Archie Hollingsworth
Robert Emhardt as Joab Martinson
Marvin Kaplan as Hap Cosgrove
Tommy Nishimura as Private Jim Harigawa
Raymond Bailey as General Weigang
Robert Burton as Colonel Dowling
Frank Behrens as Major Bigelow
Linda Wong as Kaiko
Caroline Richter as Mrs. Hollingsworth
Richard Tyler as Lieutenant William Pincus

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