Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

JohnHowardReid Remember MASH (1970)? Well. This movie predates it, and in this one the medical corps also throws plenty of spanners that inevitably gum up the way of the army. Of course, this earlier movie doesn't have the total irreverence of Mash, but there is the same abuse and misuse of army regulations, which inevitably leads to the double takes of the usual, flabbergasted and endlessly (and always uselessly) flabbergasted officers. Unfortunately, this movie does not come across with anything like the same success, thanks to surprisingly heavy-handed direction by Richard Quine (a genial man, noted for his friendly approach and light touch), plus the script's over-reliance on dialogue that is both over- repetitive and tiresomely prone to milk the very last grains of humor from situations that were not really all that funny to begin with.

mark.waltz It's post World War II France, and sergeant Hogan (Jack Lemmon) is threatened with court martial by Captain Ernie Kovacs with every antic even though the commanding colonel (Arthur O'Connell) stands up for him. Who's running the hospital here, anyway? There's lots of silly pranks and antics in Lemmon's effort to throw the maddest military ball to end all military balls, all the while complaining of an ulcer he gets assistance from pretty nurse Kathryn Crosby for.Only moderately amusing, this has a good cast and the benefit of future comedy legend Blake Edwards as one of its four writers. But if it looked funny on paper, something has been left off the screen, perhaps thanks to director Richard Quine who directed a few military comedies (a few with songs starring Mickey Rooney), all pretty forgettable. Rooney appears here too, but his participation seemingly something of an afterthought and no real addition to the script. "Bewitched" fans will appreciate Dick York in a major supporting role. This just ends up being nothing but another one of many anti-military comedy where they are made to seem like buffoons.

JLRMovieReviews Jack Lemmon, two years after winning an Oscar for "Mister Roberts," stars in the tale of Army hijinks just after the end of WWII somewhere in France. It's amazing to watch just how much influence he has and he's not even a superior officer. He's trying to organize a ball for the men before they get back to the states. For many, it may seem like why should we care. But, for those who are patient, it does get better as it goes along. Mickey Rooney shows up in the second half, who always is a "ball" waiting to happen. It may not be Lemmon's best material, but costarring Ernie Kovacs, Dick York, and Arthur O'Connell, it deserves to be seen more often.

pryor-notice An easy-going bumbling Colonel commands a military hospital, the 1066th. A self-serving martinet second-in-command tries to use military regulations to tyrannize over the hospital staff. A fun-loving conniver wants to give the hospital staffers a chance to enjoy the company of the hospital's nurses while the second-in-command tries to thwart him. If Jack Lemmon and his friends had been doctors and officers, instead of enlisted personnel, the general resemblance to MASH would have been complete. When Richard Hooker's novel MASH was turned into a TV series (after passing through the movies), the writers must have been familiar with this movie. Curiouser and curiouser.