Operation Petticoat

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  • 1.78:1 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN ASPECT RATIO
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 1, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1959
  • Label: Olive

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 8,661
Without a true plot to speak of, you really watch the film for the comic set ups that all have fairly quick payoffs. Full Review
Film School Rejects
Feb 11, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- While I think Operation Petticoat has a number of issues - it's too long, overstuffed, and rather buttoned down - I still respect as it a piece of cinematic history. Full Review
FanboyNation.com
Oct 30, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- There's a distinct lack of forward momentum plaguing Operation Petticoat, which takes forever to get going, and even then only moves in fits and starts, plot-wise. Full Review
The Dissolve
Aug 4, 2014
Rating: 4/5 -- Splendid, if a little long, service comedy from Edwards.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nov 20, 2003
Blake Edwards directs with his customary wit, breeziness, and acute sense of pacing. Full Review
Chicago Reader
May 15, 2012
Rating: 3/5 -- A n ice pairing of the talents of Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
Reeling Reviews
Nov 30, 2003
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Hasn't aged especially well. Still, on the strength of Grant and co-lead Tony Curtis, Edwards' film remains a diverting enough escape from reality. [Blu-ray] Full Review
Groucho Reviews
Jul 21, 2014

Product Description:

Cary Grant and Tony Curtis star as naval officers in this service comedy, one of the director's favorite genres. When Adm. Matt Sherman's (Grant) submarine, the Sea Tiger, is damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he needs to find spare parts to have it recommissioned. Into the breach steps aide Lt. Nick Holden (Curtis), a master con man and wheeler-dealer who begins scheming to acquire the materials needed to fix the sub while the appalled Sherman looks the other way. Once the sub is deemed seaworthy, they stop at an island where Holden picks up a couple of Filipino families and five navy nurses who have been stranded there. The arrival of the extremely attractive nurses in the sub's cramped quarters has the predicted effect on the young, all-male crew, who soon find concentrating on their work to be an impossible task. The women also have their own ideas about the renovation of the submarine, one of which involves painting it pink. Despite the dated 1950s gender stereotypes, the comic genius of Grant and the energy of Curtis, in addition to a script witty enough to have been nominated for an Academy Award, keep the film afloat. Among the talented cast are Dick Sargent, Arthur O'Connell, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, and Gavin McLeod, who would later return to the seas as the captain of THE LOVE BOAT.

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  • Sales Rank: 16,371
  • UPC: 887090079907
  • Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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