Operation Mad Ball is a madcap 1957 military comedy starring Jack Lemmon, Kathryn Grant, Ernie Kovacs, Dick York, Arthur O'Connell, and Mickey Rooney and directed by Richard Quine.
Private Hogan (Jack Lemmon) does not believe that such a blue-stocking can be good-looking, but the first sight of lovely dietetic nurse lieutenant Betty Bixby (Kathryn Grant) sets him right. When he picks her cigarette-lighter up and puts his weapon aside he is surprí...
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Operation Mad Ball is a madcap 1957 military comedy starring Jack Lemmon, Kathryn Grant, Ernie Kovacs, Dick York, Arthur O'Connell, and Mickey Rooney and directed by Richard Quine.
Private Hogan (Jack Lemmon) does not believe that such a blue-stocking can be good-looking, but the first sight of lovely dietetic nurse lieutenant Betty Bixby (Kathryn Grant) sets him right. When he picks her cigarette-lighter up and puts his weapon aside he is surprísed by security officer Paul Locke (Ernie Kovacs) who sees instantly red and threatens him with court-martial, execution and anything else that came to mind. Locke is sadistic, choleric, malicious and pompous, but, much to Hogan's relief, not as smart as himself. Soon, Hogan plans to organise a ball with all the prettiest nurses and his fellow soldiers. Hogan and Cpl. Bohun (Dick York) go to through all sorts of mishap to make sure that the secret mad ball goes ahead.
Hogan uses a general's X-ray and pretends that the X-ray belongs to him. The...
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