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Released
1957 · FILM

Operation Mad Ball

It's Operation Laughter For You! and anything goes!

Directed by
Runtime
105 min
ComedyWar

Synopsis

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.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Charles NelsonShot by Charles Lawton JrScored by George Duning

Also known as

  • Selten so gelachtde
  • Le Bal des cinglésfr
  • Off Limits - Proibito ai militariit

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