Word: huttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Horizontal Lieutenant. Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss add up to 12 ft. 1¼ in. of fun in a tall story about 4,000 chuckleheaded U.S. servicemen locked in unequal struggle with a superior enemy: one sneaky Japanese soldier...
...Horizontal Lieutenant (M-G-M). Funnyman Jim Hutton, 26, is an unpolished bean pole (6 ft. 3 in.) who gangles at all angles like the second-string center on a Y.M.C.A. basketball squad, but sputters sourprises like a bright, green Lemmon. Funnywoman Paula Prentiss, 23, is a Texas skyscraper (5 ft. 9¼ in.) who can look slim Jim in the eye without a periscope, and can come on and cut up like a junior-miss Rosalind Russell. If humor were measured in inches, Hutton and Prentiss would be the daffiest double in show business; since...
...island." Lieutenant Hutton is told when he arrives, "isn't much, but you'll learn to hate it.'' He does. There are 4,000 servicemen in residence and 18 white women. What's more, the 4,000 servicemen have nothing to do but chase one little old Japanese soldier who still holds out in the hills and at night sneaks past the U.S. sentries to pilfer the colonel's private stock of gefilte fish. After a year of this, the servicemen are so desperate for something to do that they start teaching...
...sheer, outstanding inability, Lieutenant Hutton quickly rises to the top of the nut heap. He is a go-day-wonder-how-he-made-it who begins the war as a casualty (he tries to catch a baseball with his ear), continues it as a sad sack (he reports for duty by hitting the wrong pedal, ramming his jeep through the side of a building, parking it smartly beside the C.O.'s desk), but ends it as a hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just...
Best bit: Hutton, as chief of the island's intelligence section, arrests an ancient is lander suspected of consorting with the enemy, waggles a thin Rathboney finger, and grimly begins to interrogate the dear old gentleman. The islander seems willing to talk but he can't talk English. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Eng lish and Japanese. The old man can't speak Japanese. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Japanese and Carolinian. The old man can't speak Carolinian. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Carolinian and a dialect called Charono...