Wake Me When It's Over (film)

Wake Me When It's Over
Directed byMervyn LeRoy
Written byRichard L. Breen
Screenplay byRichard L. Breen
Based onWake Me When It's Over
1959 novel
by Howard Singer
Produced byMervyn LeRoy
StarringErnie Kovacs
Dick Shawn
Margo Moore
Jack Warden
CinematographyLeon Shamroy
Edited byAaron Stell
Music byCyril J. Mockridge
Production
company
Mervyn LeRoy Productions Inc.
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox
Release date
  • April 8, 1960 (1960-04-08)
Running time
126 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2,000,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

Wake Me When It's Over is a 1960 DeLuxe Color comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Ernie Kovacs and Dick Shawn in CinemaScope. The screenplay concerns a World War II veteran who gets called back into service by mistake and sent to a dreary Pacific island. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Howard Singer. The title song was written by Sammy Cahn (words) and James Van Heusen (music) and sung by Andy Williams.

  1. ^ "Rental Potentials of 1960", Variety, 4 January 1961 p 47. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.

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