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EVEN SCREAMINGLY FUNNIER THAN BOOK Exhibitors, who read Howard Singer’s best-selling novel and have been privileged to view a “rough-cut” of Mervyn LeRoy’s “Wake Me When It’s Over”, are in agreement that the screen ver- sion, written by Richard Breen, is “screamingly funnier”, as one of them put it. The famed LeRoy “touches” and the photographic treatment by multiple Academy award-winning cinematographer, Leon Shamroy, with the aid of a carefully selected cast of topnotch comedians and other actors and actresses, have effected what, from all advance re- ports of qualified entertainment appraisers, should win an even greater patronage than the novel’s tremendous readership. Here is an outline of the screen “Wake Me When It’s Over”: Gus Brubaker (Dick Shawn), a likable, easy-going ex-Air Force sergeant in World War II, running a Manhattan bar and grill, is hounded by his wife to take out GI insurance, which he failed to buy when discharged. To keep peace in the family, Gus applies for the insurance, but runs into a complication. While a prisoner of war, as the result of being forced to bail out over Germany, the Germans had failed to notify the Allies that they had imprisoned him. Lacking word about his fate, he was officially listed as killed in action and his file closed. When Gus turned up alive at the end of the war, so he could be discharged, the Air Force issued him a new serial number and separated him. Gus’ present problem to get insurance is: which serial number to use. He decides to use the serial number under which he served just two days. But, to his amazement a short while later, he is re-drafted. Despite efforts to clear up the mistake, he is re-inducted and before he can plead his case, he finds himself in a Continued on page 42 WAKE ME WHEN IT’S OVER continued Wandering out to the woods Gus (Shawn) meets a delicately beautiful, young Japanese girl, Ume (Nobu McCarthy), picking tiger flowers. She tells him that, if he wants to cool the beer he has been soaking in a nearby stream, he had better move it because he has the beer cans in a hot spring. Gus tests the water and verifies her statement. Ume tells him that in Japan there are many hotels built at hot springs and the people there find the baths very healthful. As she talks, Gus’ face lights up with a monumental idea. Thanking her, but, forgetting his beer, he rushes off...to sell his buddies on the idea of operating a luxurv hotel! Result? scenes neiow. 41