1. Lots of shirtless, hot, nubile young men
2. Two sets of exposed buttocks
3. The Tarzan loin-cloth and the Bikini briefs
4. The ever-present background score and the stripping musical number
5. Well, there's got to be some secret reason why a supposedly competent movie director would take this lame script and blank-faced hero to make woefully unfunny, lame piece of nonsense.
DUH! FYI, Joshus Logan was gay! And very obviously so, if you've ever seen him. Which very obviously beggars the question of how some of the cute young guys got their parts. And please don't be stupid enough to think that Nicholson would never do that.
Life sucks, then you're reincarnated
I had a friend in the Navy: what you see onscreen is a lot like what it's really like. My friend and his gay pals used to talk about seeing all that male flesh on-display pretty much 24/7.
Of course, having Joshua Logan in-charge meant that a lot of the guys you see in "Ensign Pulver" were particularly pleasing to the gay male eye.
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
Your friend was obviously never in the Navy, and you're completely full of *beep*
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