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Wake Me When It's Over

1960·126 min

Wake Me When It's Over

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Comedy

The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!

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Charlie Stark

Nora McKay

Dave 'Doc' Farrington

Ume Tanaka

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Director of Photography

Richard L. Breen

Writer

Cyril J. Mockridge

Original Music Composer

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Dick Shawn

Gus Brubaker

Percy Warren

Sam Weiscoff

Marge Brubaker

Archie Hollingsworth

Joab Matinson

Hap Cosgrove

Tommy Nishimura

Jim Harigawa

General Weigang

Colonel Dowling

Major Bigelow

Kaiko Shigata

Caroline Richter

Mrs. Hollingsworth

Lady in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

NBC Commentator (uncredited)

Malcolm Bressler (uncredited)

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Wake Me When It's Over (1960) is about the war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!

Who directed Wake Me When It's Over?

Mervyn LeRoy directed Wake Me When It's Over (1960).

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