--- title: 'Wake Me When It''s Over (1960)' type: 'film' director: 'Mervyn LeRoy' released: '1960-01-01' runtime_minutes: 126 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/wake-me-when-its-over-1960' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054455/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Wake Me When It's Over (1960) 1960 · 126 min · Comedy · United States ## Synopsis Wake Me When It's Over is a 1960 DeLuxe Color comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Ernie Kovacs and Dick Shawn in CinemaScope. The screenplay concerns a World War II veteran who gets called back into service by mistake and is sent to a dreary Pacific island. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Howard Singer. The title song was written by Sammy Cahn (words) and James Van Heusen (music) and sung by Andy Williams. ## Credits - **Director:** [Mervyn LeRoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/mervyn-leroy) - **Producer:** [Mervyn LeRoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/mervyn-leroy) - **Screenplay:** [Richard L. Breen](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-l-breen) - **Original Music Composer:** [Cyril J. Mockridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/cyril-j-mockridge) - **Director of Photography:** [Leon Shamroy](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-shamroy) - **Editor:** [Aaron Stell](https://cinepixo.com/people/aaron-stell) ## Cast - [Raymond Bailey](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-bailey) - [Don Knotts](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-knotts) - [Robert Burton](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-burton) - [Jack Warden](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-warden) - [Robert Strauss](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-strauss) - [Ernie Kovacs](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernie-kovacs) - [Parley Baer](https://cinepixo.com/people/parley-baer) - [Dick Shawn](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-shawn) - [Robert Emhardt](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-emhardt) - [Marvin Kaplan](https://cinepixo.com/people/marvin-kaplan) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/wake-me-when-its-over-1960 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7960948); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.