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Submerged with 5 Girls...No wonder the S.S. Sea Tiger turned a Shocking Pink!

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20,000 Laughs Under The Sea!

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A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group of Army nurses and must take them aboard. How bad can it get? Trying to get a primer coat on the sub, they have to mix white and red in order to have enough. When forced to flee the dock during an air attack, they find themselves with the world's only Pink submarine, still with 5 women in the tight quarters of a submarine.

Channel 4 Film Review :
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Cary Grant and Tony Curtis head out to sea with a submarine full of ladies in this enjoyable wartime comedy

A bright, breezy and glossy late-1950s take on the sex war, this enjoyable romp is set during the Second World War where submarine commander Lt Cmdr Sherman (Grant) is put in charge of a ramshackle old sub that's not only about to be painted pink, but is also due to play host to a whole squad of army nurses who just happen to be young and female.

Taking wry pot-shots at the absurdity of the military - with a chain of command that seems to become more moronic the higher up one goes - and honing in on the uproar caused by the arriving nurses (headed up by Joan O'Brien and Dina Merrill), this is something of a guilty pleasure, it's political incorrectness looking very dated but remaining rather funny. Much of that is due to Grant and his sidekick lieutenant (Curtis), a scavenger extraordinaire, who uses his silver-tongued powers of persuasion to keep this pink monstrosity afloat. Surprisingly, this was the only movie the two stars appeared in together (it was made after Curtis parodied Grant in Some Like It Hot) and their admiration for each other is readily apparent on-screen.

Teasing out every cheap gag possible from the concept (the tone is set by Dina Merrill who, when clambering down a particularly steep staircase in her high heels asks "Am I going down right?"), this is typical Technicolor eye candy, with a parade of young starlets getting out their brassieres and stockings to prove that what the navy really needed was just a few good women.

Verdict : Vaguely reprehensible but remarkably funny, this wartime comedy may hail from another era, but it's an enjoyably silly romp all the same.












































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Yes, a PINK submarine! Operation Petticoat is one of those almost forgotten films that in my opinion deserved much higher acclaim than it received.

To add to Amazon's review above, to me this is a film that has a lot going for it: a good if off the beaten track storyline, a generous sprinkling of stars, plenty of obvious and dry humour, romance, high drama & tension at times, and overall a real easy-to-watch-ness about it that somehow keeps you well entertained and absorbed and leaves you with a lovely warm feeling after you've watched it. I suppose the storyline is rather dated and very gender-stereotyped by today's blockbuster all-action standards, but Operation Petticoat in my opinion is a thoroughly enjoyable family film that you'd see filling a Sunday afternoon TV slot.

The overall theme is one of good-natured banter & humour set onboard an American navy sub deployed in Japanese occupied waters during the second World War; so yes, it IS strictly speaking a war film, but with a difference; and this difference is carried off to perfection by the chemistry between the long-suffering Cary Grant & the effervescent Tony Curtis.

There are some really hilarious moments such as when the sub ended up being painted pink, and later how one of nurses' foundation garments came to keep a vital piece of onboard machinery working (no, don't ask!).






























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