Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films of the past 10 years from the movie capital stars Ernie Kovacs, Margo Moore, Jack Warden, Nobu McCarthy, Dick Shawn
A group of lonely and bored GIs posted to a desolate Pacific island decide to build a luxury hotel by the imaginative use of surplus war material.
American comedian Dick Shawn makes his film debut as the enterprising reservist whose hilarious activities turn the island into a tourist mecca - until Washington steps in! Mervyn LeRoy's 1960 production introduces a host of new Hollywood talent including Ernie Kovacs as the brash cigar-smoking CO.