Operation Petticoat
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Movie Reviews of Operation Petticoat
Movie Review: Not Widescreen
Summary: 1 Stars
The description on the box says it is widescreen and the DVD is marked widescreen; however, the movie actually on the DVD I received is full screen, not widescreen.Movie Review: They painted their submarine pink!
Summary: 5 Stars
A hilarious Cary Grant comedy that works on a variety of levels. Grant plays the beleagured captain of a Navy submarine that gets sandbagged at the raid on Pearl Harbor, hit so badly that the military brass want to want to turn it into scrap metal before it ever has a chance to see combat. He pleads with his commanding officer for a chance to patch the sub up and get it back into the war... They agree, but the task seems impossible, given that no supplies are forthcoming, as the United States scrambles to respond to the Japanese attack. Enter Tony Curtis, in one of his choicest comedic roles, playing the effete and newly-assigned Lt. Nick Holden, a shameless scam artist who steals everything that isn't nailed down in order to fill the ship's want list. But the *_real_* trouble starts when the boat is forced to take on a gaggle of (gasp!) *_ women _* onboard, causing great confusion and consternation among the all-male crew. The script is zippy and full of great sexual entendres, dealing both with the genial sexism towards the wimmin, and an unexplicit -- but very blatant -- streak of gay humor. It's a genuinely funny movie, both for the intentional laughs, and for the semi-unintentional ones that modern audiences will enjoy, looking back at late-'Fifties America.Movie Review: A Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
"Operation Petticoat" is a Great Movie! Both Cary Grant and Tony Curtis a great in thier of submarine Captain and ship's supplies officer who find themselves taking on a group of nurses. Needless to say the laughs really start. "Operation Petticoat is great movie that can enjoyed again and again.Movie Review: Grant is just wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
Cary Grant never disappoints, and he doesn't here. The comedic play between him and Tony Curtis is great, especially when he is explaining to the MP about Seaman Hornsby. Curtis also has his scenes as he tries to seduce the nurses or when he calls out for Ramon to run another "special" errand. Get this movie if you want to laugh.Movie Review: You almost can't say enough nice things about this film
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say? Directed by Blake Edwards (best known for the "Pink Panther" series), a clever, expertly wrought comedy loaded with visual humor as well plenty of dry wisecracks and miscellaneous innuendo for the veteran cast to chew on, it requires few allowances be made by the audience. No doubt very loosely inspired by the real-life adventures of the U.S. submarines SEALION, SEADRAGON, and SPEARFISH, not to mention humerous anecdotes adopted from other submarines, and technically advised by retired wartime submarine commander Rear Admiral Lucius M. Chappel, in a "funny" and sometimes subtle way it is probably the most realistic movie about US submarines in World War II I've seen. It is certainly the most well-made and entertaining. Premise: right after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese prepare to assault the Philippine Islands, and during an air raid on US Navy facilties there, sink the virtually new submarine SEA TIGER. Nonetheless, her only appropriately serious and generally very human commander, Matt Sherman - done very credibly by Cary Grant - is too much of a firebreather to take this lying down. After persuading his boss, the squadron commodore, to let him take a shot at it, he and his ship's company - reduced by transfers due to the boat's sunken condition - manage to raise her from the harbor bottom and commence getting her into good enough shape to escape to Australia before the inevitable Japanese invasion. Unfortunately their repair job, daunting enough already, is impossibly hampered by an apparently bureaucratically-based shortage of critical spare parts and supplies - even toilet paper (a gag in the film derived nearly verbatim from the true experience of the submarine SKIPJACK). At this point Tony Curtis enters as Lt. Nick Holden, the character's name likely-enough suggested by actor William Holden's patented self-indugent bad-boy persona. Having grown up in a neighborhood called "Noah's Ark" ("you traveled in pairs or you just didn't travel"), our Lt. Holden is a journeyman back-alley maneuverer who joined the Navy for the prestige associated with the uniform and what it can get him (in particular, a certain Miss "Super Chief"). His plans have gone horribly awry by the sudden outbreak of the war, leaving him an admiral's aid stranded in Manila without his admiral; being at loose ends he is assigned as a replacement officer to the SEA TIGER. Facing the alternative of being stuck on Bataan to endure the oncoming Japanese onslaught, he sees it is in his best interest to make up for the seagoing experience he has managed to avoid during his time in the Navy by becoming the boat's Supply Officer and securing everything the captain needs to get "the . . . submarine" out of there and to someplace where he can get a better deal. Dedicated to his responsibilities as the boat's commander, Captain Sherman is willing to make "a pact with the Devil" and thus Lt. Holden, allied with his handpicked detail of "scavengers" - Seaman Hunkle (Gavin McLeod), a sailor only known as "The Prophet [of Doom]," and of course the trusty marine Sargeant Ramon Gallardo ("there isn't a thief, pickpocket, or fence in the islands that doesn't know, love, and respect him") - commences a supply procurement program which might most charitably be described unorthodox (or less charitably as felonious). But he really hits his peak when he manages to "scavenge" five stranded Army nurses and convince the captain that he has to take them aboard. From then on the film becomes Cary Grant's battle to get his sputtering, groaning, band-aid patched submarine safely to Australia while avoiding any "exchange of information" concerning the birds and the bees between the crew and their passengers. It's a battle made all the more complicated by his frequent personal run-ins with an accident-prone and especially buxom young nurse (in the words of the "Chief of the Boat" - "if you wanna know what you're fightin' for - there's your answer") who for all her blunders unintentionally winds up saving the boat and all aboard. Oh, and along the way they manage to wind up with the vessel painted pink (don't ask me how - just try to believe I actually saw a nearly identical performance to the COB's in reaction to a similar problem aboard a nuclear ballistic missile submarine around 1980), have to set up a maternity ward, complete with goat ("the children will need fresh milk"), and accomplish the unique induction of "Seaman Hornsby" into his brief tenure in the Naval Service. The film is actually told as a flashback from about 1960 and ends with a slighlty sentimental and amusing bit of a twist. Clean and wholesome while still being thoroughly adult ("when a man is tired and irritable you can be sure there's one thing he's not getting enough of") this one you can watch with your kids - maybe even after they've reached ther cynical teenaged years.