Operation Petticoat
1959 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
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.
Direction Blake Edwards
Cast Cary Grant · Tony Curtis · Joan O'Brien · Dina Merrill · Gene Evans · Dick Sargent · Virginia Gregg · Robert F. Simon · Robert Gist · Gavin MacLeod · George Dunn · Dick Crockett · Arthur O'Connell
Soundtrack David Rose · Henry Mancini
Screenplay Stanley Shapiro · Maurice Richlin · Paul King · Joseph Stone
Cinematography Russell Harlan
Original title Operation Petticoat
7.1
3K votes (FilmAffinity)
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