Main Cast: Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Miyoshi Umeki, Jim Backus
Release Year: 1961
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
Plot
Although the talented cast in this uninspired comedy do the best they can with their lines, nothing quite brings The Horizontal Lieutenant to an upright, stand-up-and-take-notice presence. Paula Prentiss as Lt. Molly Blue and Jim Hutton as Lt. Merle Wye are once again paired, this time as officers in action in the Pacific at the end of World War II. Lt. Wye is given the challenge of bringing in a lone Japanese hold-out on an island that was taken by the American forces many months earlier. Though the situation has great potential, pratfalls and the most obvious gags take the place of a more sophisticated humor. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Charles McGraw - Col. Charles Korotny; Marty Ingels - Yeoman Buckles; Yoshio Yoda - Sgt. Roy Tada; Argentina Brunetti; Jack Carter - Billy Monk; Lloyd Kino - Sgt. Jess Yomuru; Yuki Shimoda - Kobayashi; Linda Wong - Michido
Credit
George W. Davis - Art Director, Richard Thorpe - Director, Richard W. Farrell - Editor, George Stoll - Composer (Music Score), Ralph Freed - Songwriter, Burton Lane - Songwriter, Stella Unger - Songwriter, Robert J. Bronner - Cinematographer, Joe Pasternak - Producer, Henry W. Grace - Set Designer, Otto Siegel - Set Designer, George Wells - Screenwriter, Gordon Cotler - Book Author
