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Director
  
George OHanlon

Budget
  
158,000 USD

Duration
  

Language
  
English

4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Producer
  
Country
  
United States

The Rookie (1959 film) movie poster

Release date
  
December 1, 1959

Writer
  
Tommy Noonan, George OHanlon

Cast
  
Tommy Noonan
(Tommy Noonan / Japanese sailor),
Peter Marshall
(Pete Marshall / Japanese sailor), (Lili Marlene), (Jerry Mann),
Claude Stroud
(Col. Taylor),
Norman Leavitt
(Maj. Evert)

Similar movies
  
Peter Marshall and Tommy Noonan appear in The Rookie and Swingin Along

Julie newmar in the rookie 1959


The Rookie is a 1959 American comedy film directed by George O'Hanlon in CinemaScope. It was the first film starring the comedy team of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall, they also appeared together in the 1962 film Swingin' Along.

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Plot

Set in 1945, Thomas Patrick Noonan (Tommy Noonan) is a radio station page who receives an Army induction draft notice on the day World War II ends. He insists he should fulfill his military duty, and a mistake at the Pentagon results in a decommissioned stateside military facility being kept open to accommodate his basic training.

Sgt. Peter Marshall (Peter Marshall), who is in charge of shutting the camp down, is angry he has to remain in the Army, since he was planning to marry his girlfriend, movie starlet Lili Marlene (Julie Newmar). Tommy falls in love with Lili, and her press agent devises a publicity stunt for Lili to return the emotion and plan to marry him. The sergeant, who is furious about losing Lili, attempts to sabotage Tommy’s basic training, but his scheme backfires and the two men find themselves stationed in Japan. Lili follows them, and through complicated circumstances the trio wind up stranded on a desert island that is soon visited by two Japanese sailors who are unaware the war has ended.

Cast

  • Tommy Noonan as Pvt. Thomas Patrick Noonan
  • Peter Marshall as MSgt. Pete Marshall
  • Julie Newmar as Lili Marlene
  • Joe Besser as Medical Corpsman
  • Jerry Lester as Jerry Mann
  • Claude Stroud as Col. Taylor
  • Norman Leavitt as Maj. Evert
  • Vince Barnett as 1st Janitor
  • Herb Armstrong as Lt. Pat Sumner
  • Richard Reeves as Bruce - Military Police Sergeant
  • Don Corey as Cook
  • Rodney Bell as 2nd Janitor
  • George Eldredge as Gen. Bechtel
  • Peter Leeds as Seville Quare
  • Patrick O'Moore as Ship's Captain Weiss
  • Production

    The Rookie was the first film in which Noonan and Marshall, who had appeared on television and in nightclubs during the late 1940s and 1950s, had starring roles. Their only previous film work had been a cameo appearance in Starlift in 1951. The Rookie was intended to be the first in a series of films starring the comedy duo, who were being billed as the "new Abbott and Costello" by the studio. The two also played the Japanese sailors who encounter the American soldiers on the deserted island.

    The Rookie was made by 20th Century Fox on a budget of only $158,000. Peter Marshall would later recall the television program Adventures in Paradise was the only other production being filmed at Fox during that time, and he felt the lack of activity made the studio feel like a "ghost town."

    The Rookie scored a strong box office performance, encouraging 20th Century Fox to rehire Noonan and Marshall for a second feature, originally titled Double Trouble but renamed Swingin' Along prior to its 1962 release. It was not successful and Noonan and Marshall broke up to pursue solo careers.

    References

    The Rookie (1959 film) Wikipedia
    The Rookie (1959 film) IMDb The Rookie (1959 film) themoviedb.org


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