The Rookie is a 1959 American comedy film directed by writer-comedian George O'Hanlon and presented in CinemaScope. It was the first film starring the comedy team of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall; they also appeared together in the 1962 film Swingin' Along.

Plot

The film is set in 1945. Thomas Patrick Noonan (Tommy Noonan) is a radio station page who receives an Army induction draft notice on the day World War II ends. He insists he should fulfill his military duty, and a mistake at the Pentagon results in a decommissioned stateside military facility being kept open to accommodate his basic training. The entire fort and its staff are serving a solitary soldier.