The Perfect Furlough
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The Perfect Furlough is a 1958 American CinemaScope Eastmancolor romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and written by Stanley Shapiro. Edwards and Shapiro would re-team the following year for another Tony Curtis service comedy, Operation Petticoat.
Plot
Template:More plot The army has a problem when over 100 male soldiers stationed at an isolated Arctic base for nearly a year start having psychological issues due to their isolation. As a result, they have lost all sense of military discipline, are careless and lackadaisical in their duties and their morale is at rock bottom. As it is impossible to give all the soldiers a furlough, their commanding general in the US holds a meeting to discuss the best solution. Army psychiatrist Lieutenant Vicky Loren suggests that the soldiers on the isolated base decide amongst themselves what would be "the perfect furlough" with a lottery being held where one lucky soldier would go on the furlough with the rest of the soldiers living vicariously through him. They decide on a trip to Paris with sex symbol movie star Sandra Roca.
The scheming Corporal Paul Hodges wins the lottery and gets to Paris, France, on a three weeks' leave. The army is worried that Hodges' reputation as a ladies' man will embarrass the army if he has his way with the film star. Lt. Loren and two military policemen keep Hodges under constant supervision, but Hodges schemes to score with Sandra.
Cast
- Tony Curtis as Cpl. Paul Hodges
- Janet Leigh as Lt. Vicki Loren
- Keenan Wynn as Harvey Franklin
- Linda Cristal as Sandra Roca, the Argentine Bombshell Template:Nb5
- Elaine Stritch as Liz Baker
- Marcel Dalio as Henri Valentin
- Les Tremayne as Col. Leland
- Jay Novello as Rene Valentin
- King Donovan as Maj. Collins
- Gordon Jones as "Sylvia", MP #1
- Alvy Moore as Pvt. Marvin Brewer
- Lilyan Chauvin as French nurse
- Troy Donahue as Sgt. Nickles
- Dick Crockett as Hans, MP #2
- Eugene Borden as French doctor
- James Lanphier as assistant hotel manager
See also
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- 1958 films
- 1958 romantic comedy films
- American romantic comedy films
- 1950s French-language films
- Films set in Paris
- Films directed by Blake Edwards
- Universal Pictures films
- Films scored by Frank Skinner
- 1950s English-language films
- 1950s American films
- English-language romantic comedy films