Operation Petticoat | | Cast : | Cary Grant, Tony Curtis | | Director : | Blake Edwards | | Studio : | Republic Studios | | Format : | Color | | Released Date : | January 01, 1959 | | DVD Released Date : | March 26, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | NR (Not Rated) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 24, 2004 | | Summary | Slip in a tena lady and you'll be fine......lol | Content
 | WOW!ok, so i'm a massive Tony Curtis fan, but this film is actally the most bizarre, hilarious film ever! The general synopsis has been given in plenty of detail by everyone else, so i'll just rave on about HOW funny this film really is...Now, i have to confess, my personal favourite scene has got to be the one where Tony Curtis steals a pig off some indonesian farmers farm and dresses it in a naval officers uniform and tries to smuggle it onto the submarine by saying it is drunk - thus to explain the rather unusual sounds which emante from beneath the sea mans overcoat!It just keeps snorting, and then he locks it in the loo to hide it and.... well, lets just say that those with weak bladders should stay away from this film - although in all fairness it is probably ALOT funnier at 4 am after much wine has been consumed...*coughs* lol. Well, this is a spectacularly unhelpful review - just WATCH the film! ooo! and also try and see one called "Space Truckers" which features Charles Dance as a half robot thing, uttering the immortal lines: "If i had an anus i would soil myself...." Classic. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 27, 2004 | | Summary | A must in Cary Grant Fans | Content
| This is a great comedy and a must for Grant Fans. Cary Grant as the commander of a very peculiar submarine sailing thru the Pacific with an even more peculiar crew. Great Movie |
| Rating | | | Date | March 04, 2004 | | Summary | The Cast | Content
| Tony Curtis and Cary Grant are at their handsomest. You should see Cary in his admiral outfit. But, in my opinion, you may disagree, a very obvious flaw is the weak cast of women. I was casting it in my mind as I watched. Marilyn Monroe would have been hilarious-- and Thelma Ritter as the mechanic. Of course, with a stellar cast, the parts would have had to be better for them. The pink sub is hilarious and the men seem very relaxed, glad to get non-challenging roles. This is a must for the 50's comedies collector and has that great super-bright photography. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 08, 2004 | | Summary | lightweight WWII comedy still worth catching | Content
| Like submarines, this flick really doesn't have that much keeping itself above the waterline. The USS Sea Tiger is almost completely destroyed when attacked by the Japanese in port in 1941. Through the pluck of its commanding officer, Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) and the scheming of his very un-military XO (Tony Curtis), the stricken sub is pulled together enough to make it out to sea, where it suffers a series of embarrassing misadventures - the crowning indignity being the coat of pink paint it must wear when their isn't enough gray. In between, the sub faces off against a squad of army nurses, a family of Filipino refugees, a goat, and a torpedoed jeep - all without killing a fly. It's not great comedy, but the flick gets by with Curtis as Holden who can always get what he wants, and never wants active-duty (when he tells Grant that he had seen action on a destroyer, Grant is dumbstruck that Curtis ever found time for it between golfing with admirals and dancing at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel). The flick actually belongs to Grant as the prim and perfect Sherman who tries to mold Curtis into a proper officer and finds himself being molded in his likeness instead. (When sailors find their port facilities stripped to provide replacement parts for Sea Tiger, a forlorn admiral concludes that they've witnessed "Sherman's march to the sea".) The leads aside, "Petticoat" is actually a great time capsule of a time in Hollywood when the military was still respected - in more modern flicks, the street smarts of Curtis's character would make him the hero and the wisest of all. But the script makes him a pathetic weasel to be whipped into shape by the proper Sherman, who of course sees right through Holden. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 05, 2004 | | Summary | Cary Grant and Tony Curtis - what a combination | Content
| Starring two awesome actors and a great supporting cast, this movie is a lot of fun. For those who've seen Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot (with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon), you may already know that he greatly admired Cary Grant, as his hilarious impression of him in that film shows. In fact, originally Cary Grant was not going to star in this film, but Tony Curtis was reluctant to take second billing to anyone else. Their on-screen camaraderie is fantastic and the way that their friendship develops throughout the film, despite Curtis's characters blatant disregard for navy regulations, is enjoyable. The basic storyline is one of a submarine, with Cary Grant in charge, that is put out of action during WW2 without firing a single missile at the enemy. Grant is determined to get her seaworthy again, and after some makeshift repairs he sets off with his crew to get to a port where proper repairs can be made. However, he has gained an unexpected new crew member in the form of Tony Curtis, an 'ideas' man who has only ever been to sea once, and that was by accident. The self-appointed 'morale' and 'supply' officer uses various dodgy methods to enable the repairs to the sub to take place. And, being a true supply officer, manages to bring aboard some lovely American nurses when the sub puts into a small island temporarily. With the addition of these love interests for the main characters the fun really starts. But I'll leave you to watch it, and enjoy it for yourself. |
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