Wake Me When It's Over (1960)

A WWII Air Force veteran (Dick Shawn) is redrafted through a clerical error. When he arrives on an obscure Japanese island where he is to serve at a ramshackle radar station, he discovers a motley group of pathetic and unmotivated airmen overseen by a non conformist Captain (Ernie Kovacs). Based on the novel by Howard Singer and directed by Mervyn LeRoy (QUO VADIS). I'm not big on military comedies but this one is painless if overlong (it runs over two hours). Its plot is so preposterous that you can't get too invested in it. The island's indigenous Japanese are stereotypes and the film's sexist ending leaves a bad taste in the mouth. You might be better off checking out TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON instead, not that that movie doesn't have its own set of problems but it treads similar ground but it's still a better film than this. With Jack Warden, Margo Moore, Nobu McCarthy, Don Knotts, Robert Strauss and Noreen Nash.