The Horizontal Lieutenant

1944. Hapless Second Lieutenant Merle Wye of the US army's intelligence service is dismayed that he has not seen any action - he imagining himself as a suave undercover agent, worming secrets out of exotic female spies - instead being confined to a desk job in Honolulu. For non-military reasons, Merle is assigned a new posting - his first field job - that on the South Pacific island of Rodahan. He eventually learns that both his job on Rodahan and the posting in general are rather innocuous, as the Americans liberated Rodahan from the Japanese eight months ago, there has been no action there ever since, and as such it is a rather quiet, idyllic locale. All the Japanese soldiers on the island surrendered at the time, that is all except one, a man named Kobayashi, who is unarmed and seen as being harmless because of it. Merle's job is to locate and bring in Kobayashi, solely because he has been pilfering luxury goods from the US army commissary and officers' quarters the last little ...


Aliases
  • El teniente horizontal
  • The Bottletop Affair
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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 319554
  • Status Released
  • Released United States of America April 18, 1962 Japan May 19, 1962 Argentina July 3, 1962 Germany August 3, 1962 Finland September 7, 1962 Mexico October 25, 1962 France January 18, 1963 Sweden June 17, 1963 Denmark May 17, 1965
  • Content Rating Japan G Australia G Great Britain U United States of America NR
  • Runtime 90 minutes
  • Genres Comedy Romance War
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Production Company Euterpe
  • Distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer CBS
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