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Release year: 1964

Storyline

Life becomes harried after Ensign Pulver's prank. He and the captain are swept overboard during a storm, ending up on a tropical island with a group of shipwrecked nurses, dancing natives, and one very big case of appendicitis.

Top credits

Directors

Joshua Logan

Writers

Cast

Robert Walker Jr. — Ensign Frank Pulver
Burl Ives — Captain Morton
Walter Matthau — Doc
Tommy Sands — Bruno

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Did you know

• Many scenes featuring Jack Nicholson were left on the cutting room floor.

• The movie viewed by the crew, "Young Dr. Jekyll Meets Frankenstein", never existed. It was fabricated by matching some newly made shots into existing footage from The Walking Dead (1936) a Warner Brothers release starring Boris Karloff and Edmund Gwenn. Karloff and Gwenn are credited on the screen, as is another actor, Morgan Paull, who appears in some of the new shots. Paull's on-screen credit reads "And Introducing Morgan Paull as Young Dr. Jekyll".

• Jack Lemmon did not reprise his Oscar-winning breakthrough role from Mister Roberts (1955), however his future friend and frequent cast mate Walter Matthau does appear in this film. This was two years before their first film together, The Fortune Cookie (1966).