Operation Mad Ball

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

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.

Jack Lemmon

Ernie Kovacs

(Capt. Paul Lock)

Kathryn Grant

(Lt. Betty Bixby)

Arthur O'Connell

Mickey Rooney

(MSgt. Yancy Skibo)

Dick York

James Darren

(Pvt. Widowskas)

Roger Smith

(Cpl. Berryman)

William Leslie

Sheridan Comerate

L.Q. Jones

Jeanne Manet

(Madame LaFour)

Marilyn Hanold

(Lt. Tweedy (uncredited))

Mary LaRoche

(Lt. Schmidt (uncredited))

Mary Tyler Moore

(Nurse (uncredited))

Bebe Allen

(Lt. Johnson (uncredited))

Richard Bull

(Military Police Sergeant (uncredited))

Anna Lee Carroll

(Lt. Leeming (uncredited))

Joel Collins

(Collins (uncredited))

Dick Crockett

(Sgt. McCloskey (uncredited))

Kort Falkenberg

(Oskar (uncredited))

Ron Gans

(Tinneman (uncredited))

Albert Godderis

(Old Man (uncredited))

Stacy Graham

(Lt. Rosedale (uncredited))

Michael Hagen

(Jarvis (uncredited))

William Hickey

(Sampson (uncredited))

Maithe Iragui

(Odette (uncredited))

Roy Jenson

(Hospital Guard (uncredited))

Betsy Jones-Moreland

(Lt. Bushey (uncredited))

Henry McCann

(Shorty (uncredited))

Joan McKellen

(Nurse (uncredited))

David McMahon

(MSgt. Pringle (uncredited))

John Mitchum

(Enlisted Man (uncredited))

Patricia Morán

(Lt. White (uncredited))

Dale Musselman

(Sax Player (uncredited))

Bek Nelson

(Nurse (uncredited))

Paul Picerni

(Pvt. Bullard (uncredited))

William Pierson

(Sgt. Perkins (uncredited))

Kathy Reed

(Nurse (uncredited))

Otto Reichow

(German Prisoner of War (uncredited))

Werner Reichow

(Franz (uncredited))

Robert C. Ross

(Enlisted Man (uncredited))

Eddie Ryder

(Allison (uncredited))

Roy N. Sickner

(Hospital Guard (uncredited))

Billy Snyder

(Soldier (uncredited))

Rose Wallerstein

(Guard (uncredited))