Films
January, 1958
Operation Mad Ball is a kind of landlocked Mister Roberts that has to do with a U.S. Army Medical Center set up outside a liberated French town in 1945. Staff members include a clutch of whistle-bait nurses and a sharp, shrewd gang of enlisted men, one of whom is gaga over a certain Florence Nightingale but can't make out because she's an officer. To give the kid a hand, his buddies arrange an off-limits ball ("It's going to be a mad ball, man!") to provide the soft lights and hard dri...
