Operation Mad Ball
Comedy
War
It's Operation Laughter For You! and anything goes!
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.
1957-08-17
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Cast
Director
Richard Quine
Jack Lemmon as Pvt. Hogan
Ernie Kovacs as Capt. Paul Lock
Kathryn Grant as Lt. Betty Bixby
Arthur O'Connell as Col. Rousch
Mickey Rooney as MSgt. Yancy Skibo
Dick York as Cpl. Bohun
James Darren as Pvt. Widowskas
Roger Smith as Cpl. Berryman
William Leslie as Pvt. Grimes
Sheridan Comerate as Sgt. Wilson
L.Q. Jones as Ozark
Jeanne Manet as Madame LaFour
Marilyn Hanold as Lt. Tweedy (uncredited)
Mary LaRoche as Lt. Schmidt (uncredited)
Mary Tyler Moore as Nurse (uncredited)
Richard Bull as Military Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Anna Lee Carroll as Lt. Leeming (uncredited)
William Hickey as Sampson (uncredited)
Roy Jenson as Hospital Guard (uncredited)
Betsy Jones-Moreland as Lt. Bushey (uncredited)
David McMahon as MSgt. Pringle (uncredited)
John Mitchum as Enlisted Man (uncredited)
Patricia Morán as Lt. White (uncredited)
Bek Nelson as Nurse (uncredited)
Paul Picerni as Pvt. Bullard (uncredited)
William Pierson as Sgt. Perkins (uncredited)
Otto Reichow as German Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Eddie Ryder as Allison (uncredited)