Operation Petticoat
by Blake Edwards
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Actor: Cary Grant, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Joan O'Brien, Tony CurtisDirector: Blake Edwards
Brand: Lions Gate
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Editor: Frank Gross
Producer: Robert Arthur
Writer: Joseph Stone
Writer: Maurice Richlin
Writer: Paul King
Writer: Stanley Shapiro
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Republic Pictures
DVD Reviews of Operation Petticoat
DVD Review: Operation Petticoat
Summary: 5 Stars
I won't go into plot details that others have already covered. Cary Grant and Tony Curtis are priceless. I read that Bob Hope turned down Cary Grant's role- glad he did, because it wouldn't have been the same. Cary was probably better in "Father Goose". In this film he basically plays straight man to everyone else's comedic timing.
I think the ages of various actors in the movie is a point of contention. At the first, when Cary Grant flashback/morphs from a middle-aged admiral to a Sub Captain of 25 years before, he doesn't really look any different. In one scene he mentions his grey hair to Joan O'Brien. At the end of the film, they don't really do anything to age her, although she'd be nearly 50! In another scene Virginia Gregg and Dina Merrill are discussing their ages. Dina says she's 24 (she was actually 34 at the time of filming!) and Virginia says she's 38 (she was really 43 and looked older!). They didn't really age Dina either at the end, though they wouldn't have had to do much.
The movie is a nice and light-weight comedy. Plenty gets shot up, but no one gets killed, and war-buffs will actually find some valuable footage of Fleet submarines.
DVD Review: Good Laughs, Interesting Cast
Summary: 4 Stars
Feminists would hate this movie, if they saw it today. Hollywood would never make it now in first place, unless roles were reversed and men were made to look like sex objects. That would meet PC double standards.
Nonetheless, agendas aside, there is a lot of good humor in here; the story is interesting, and you get a well-known cast with Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill, Arthur O'Connell, Gavin MacLeod and Marian Ross. The latter went on to be big names on television more than movies, MacLeod on "Mary Tyler Moore" and Ross on "Happy Days."
This was Happy Days on a ship, at least when some attractive women board the vessel. Grant has the best lines in the film - speaking lines, that is. Good entertainment. Lots of laughs before the PC police made it impossible to laugh at anything, including ourselves.
DVD Review: "That's a strange color to be painting government property!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Who doesn't love Cary Grant and Tony Curtis? As one of my favorites, it's humorous and a good feel good, family film. Even the kids love "the movie with the pink sub!" In their struggle to "get back in the war" the crew of the Sea Tiger find themselves in a number of predicaments.DVD Review: One Great Line Among Many
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the very funny lines comes from an officer watching through binoculars as Nick Holden brings a boat load of nurses back to the sub from a bombed island: "Wow -- now that's what I call scavenging!" The officer is played by Dick Sargent, the second Darin on "Bewitched."
Matt Sherman comments that he's a little concerned about Lt. Holden's influence and recommends a little less "Wow" and a little more "Tsk Tsk."
DVD Review: x
Summary: 5 Stars
this is very relaxing and entertaining movie that does not get old after you see it a few times. highly recommended
Description of Operation Petticoat
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/16/2004 Run time: 122 minutes Rating: NrBlake Edwards's delightful 1959 comedy stars Cary Grant as a World War II submarine captain whose preference for a by-the-book command reluctantly yields to certain realities. Chief among those is that Grant's first officer (Tony Curtis, who impersonated Grant that same year in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot), a shameless hustler, is better than the navy at delivering whatever supplies the ship and crew need to keep going. But when Curtis sneaks a handful of Philippine refugees and several gorgeous nurses onto the all-male sub, the skipper not only has to cool down his crew but deal with an unexpected feminine influence on ship protocol. The film is a great deal of fun, sprinkled with the director's trademark sight gags (including one of Edwards's best, involving a torpedo and jeep), and graced with his unmistakable lilt. Grant is in great form, his comic brilliance almost impossibly effortless. --Tom Keogh
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