The best Jack Lemmon’s war movies

Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon

08/02/1925- 27/06/2001
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jack Lemmon’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jack Lemmon.

Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts
7.6/10
Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.

Operation Mad Ball

Operation Mad Ball
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 01/01/1957
  • Character: Private Hogan
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

The Wackiest Ship in the Army
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 29/12/1960
  • Character: Rip Crandall
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.

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