Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

weezeralfalfa This Cary Grant-Tony Curtis naval comedy falls within the typical comedy format for each. It's periodically amusing, but with few belly laughers. The caper with the stolen pig is probably the funniest. If you generally like Cary or Tony comedies, check it out. Most Cary comedies rather late in his career are too tame for me. This one is an exception. Tony is up to his usual tricks, with and without women, and Cary, as the sub skipper, is presented with an endless variety of embarrassing or critical situations. A group of women forced to live for some weeks on a submarine with very cramped quarters and no provision for the possibility of a handful of women passengers will naturally create some embarrassing situations, which is the main source of humor. The unplanned painting of the sub pink heightens the impression of a substantial feminine presence on this sub. The very flakey operational condition of the sub, with motors backfiring and barely functioning, provides part of the humor, as does Tony's imaginative methods of obtaining critical supplies and parts. Tony's inexperience with subs and shipboard operations in general, means he begins as an underdog, proving his worth with his facility for finagling supplies from warehouses, etc..According to the Wikipedia site for this film, a number of incidents are based on actual events during WWII. For example, USS Bowfin managed to torpedo a bus instead of its target. The toilet paper requisition caper is also based on an actual happening. The heat from a burning sub scorched the topcoat paint off a neighboring sub, revealing its reddish undercoat, hence rather reminiscent of the problem that led to the pink sub. There was insufficient white or red undercoat paint available to do the entire hull. Thus, it was decided to combine their supplies of each to make a pink undercoat. Unfortunately, they didn't obtain the gray overcoat before they had to leave the warehouse area. Thus, they were forced to remain conspicuous during their long trip to Australia. Tokyo Rose did broadcast a comment about the red-coated sub, suggesting that the US Navy had gone nuts.Also, I didn't get the significance of referring to their sub as a pig boat until reading a review. Apparently this was a common nickname , based on the smelly interior of many such ships, especially if the water stills weren't working at full capacity, hence not enough for showers, or if the sewage release outlet wasn't working properly.

JohnHowardReid I must admit there are a few chuckles and a few minor thrills in this labored farce. It takes a long time for the promise inherent in the title to get under way. And when the girls finally appear, it is mostly all good clean fun. In fact, just as much footage is devoted to other comic interludes, such as Curtis scrounging supplies at the casino/supply depot, as to the predictable situations that develop when women are forced to live in cramped quarters. Needless to say, these constricted quarters have allowed the movie to be filmed very economically. Long dialogue scenes can now take place in tiny, economy-sized sets that even Monogram would have been ashamed of. True, there is some welcome exterior filming with real subs and ships that were kindly provided free of charge by the Department of Defense. As might be expected, director Blake Edwards has handled this routine assignment in a totally pedestrian style. He just plonked the actor in front of the camera and said, "Action!". And as for the flat, characterless photography, Russell Harlan hang your head in shame! Cary Grant does little more that just say his lines, allowing Tony Curtis to work all out to exploit his own limited charm/talent. The rest of the players are strictly from hunger. Thanks to an aggressive promotion, this movie was enormously successful at the box=office. Back in 1959, there was an enormous appetite out there for films that promised a raciness that they actually failed to deliver. People just couldn't get it through their heads that no movies could be released without the concurrence of the Roman Catholic church, and racy films were most definitely "Out!"

theperfecttomcollins The message Cary Grant, in complete frustration at red tape, requisitions toilet paper for the Sea Tiger is almost word for word from an actual sardonically-toned requisition from a USS sub commander in WWII to HQ (CINCPAC). I don't have the book nearby, but in "Submarine", Commander Edward L. Beach (of "Run Silent, Run Deep" fame) recounts the famous incident.After this Skipper's message was received, he got his toilet paper. More than he may have expected. Every time thereafter that his sub returned to Pearl Harbor from patrol, instead of the mounds of meat, fruit, and ice cream that greeted the sequestered crews of other returning subs at the dock, there were disappointingly only mounds of rolls of toilet paper.Some viewers may see a double entendre in the context of the film where ladies are aboard on a pink submarine. Edwards and Blatty probably were also aware of this because sexual innuendoes abound in the film - and might I say in good taste - although in their other later collaborations, the taste may have gotten lost on a few occasions.But, do appreciate that an older USS sub (SS-23? 22? 21? 20? etc...) undergoing retrofit in the US Navy around December 1941 in the South Pacific did have a rust colored primer coat applied to it prior to its final coat of gray. However, after Pearl Harbor, the finishing gray paint became unavailable or the sub had no time to have the finishing coat applied, and had to enter war service with only its primer coat. Because of the rusty color of the primer, it often looked pink, especially in grand Pacific sunsets. Therefore, you actually had a US sub on patrol in the early days of WWII that was, in effect, pink.Blake Edwards also knew the Navy because he served in it during WWII. The characters, Sherman and Holden, Cary Grant and Tony Curtis respectively, might just be akin to Edwards' alter egos since Blake was in the fight as a swab jockey.Extra stuff: Crews on USS subs were "hand-picked" for their advanced aptitude in engineering and mechanics. Collectively, on one US sub in WWII, you probably had quite a few geniuses in service. Each man could operate any function on the boat should one have become incapacitated. They CYA'd very well. "Pig Boats" is another great book to learn of the US Silent Service during WWII."Through Hell and Deep Water" recounts the contributions of a Texas-bred submarine skipper to the Pacific campaign. Sam Dealey was renowned for his "down the throat" torpedo kills of Japanese destroyers, a major plot point in the film version of "Run Silent, Run Deep".Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas was named after the family from which Sam Dealey was a member. Unfortunately, the main legacy of the name Dealey now relates to the location of the assassination of an American President, not to Sam's Silent Service.At highest rank an XO on the first "Trigger", Beach's sub was also retroactively fitted with an ice cream maker by some of its crew. In those years, ice cream was a most cherished commodity in American society.A strange phenomenon would actually occur to some US crews of sunken vessels and left adrift for days asea. After their boats had been sunk, having been drifting in the merciless sun of the Pacific, air-blasted with sea salt, and suffering from hypothermia in Pacific warm waters still lower than their own body temperature, some sailors would begin hallucinating of mirages of islands made of ice cream, and set a swimming course to them. Some of their less-affected, but still exhausted, mates would try to stop them, but weakness prevented any action. These young sailors would swim to the mirage of ice cream, and eventually disappeared with it.

blanche-2 "Operation Petticoat" brings Tony Curtis and his idol, Cary Grant, together for a very funny film directed by Blake Edwards. Curtis, of course, does a great Cary Grant impression in "Some Like it Hot," and working with Grant was a dream come true for the 34-year-old actor. And nothing about the experience disappointed him or the audience. The film also features Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Dick Sargent, Arthur O'Connell, Madelyn Rhue, Virginia Gregg and Marion Ross.The film is shown in flashback as the submarine Sea Tiger is about to be junked. Grant, as Lt. Cmdr. Matt Sherman, looks at his log book and reminisces to a time when he was trying to get the Sea Tiger back into the war after his sub is nearly destroyed in an air raid. However, it is next to impossible to get supplies. Assigned as a replacement officer to the Sea Tiger is one Mr. Holden (Curtis), a wheeler-dealer who got into uniform so he could meet the right people. Though he maneuvered a country club job as an aide to an admiral planning to go to Manila, the war intervened, and the admiral cancels his plans. Holden gets the Sea Tiger assignment. He promises that he can get supplies and presents one of his band of merry men, Ramon Gallardo, a prisoner whom he promises can travel on the sub. "But he's a Marine," Sherman objects. "There isn't a thief, pickpocket, or fence in the islands that doesn't know, love, and respect him," Holden answers. Holden gets supplies by any means necessary, including taking pipes from the bathrooms, part of the major's office wall, etc. He also manages to rescue five nurses who were stranded on an island, disrupting the entire sub. Though he finally confines Holden to quarters, Sherman realizes soon enough that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, and calls on Holden for help again."Operation Petticoat" has some hilarious moments, including Holden's stealing of a pig for New Year's dinner and the subsequent confrontation with the owner and military police on the sub, where Sherman and Holden refer to the pig as "Hornsby." Unable to get the right color paint, the sub is painted pink and nearly bombed by a U.S. ship.Cary Grant is wonderful as the commander, authoritative, and then authoritative but frazzled as he is haunted by one of the nurses, a Jonah (Joan O'Brien) who causes disaster for him whenever she shows up. Tony Curtis is equally good, and he does not play the role for comedy; rather, he has the comedy come out of the character - a former street kid, ambitious to marry money, with his own agenda in the Navy.The rest of the cast is very good, with pretty Dina Merrill being the love interest for Curtis, only to learn that he's already engaged to a wealthy woman. Arthur O'Connell is funny as the frustrated mechanic as nurse Heywood insists on helping him run the ship, at one point using a girdle to connect some of the parts."Operation Petticoat" is a real treat - a very funny film with good direction, script and acting all around.