Operation Petticoat (Olive Signature) (Blu-ray)
20,000 Laughs Under The Sea!
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: November 28, 2017
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cary Grant & Tony Curtis | |
Performer: | Gene Evans, Dina Merrill, Arthur O'Connell, Gavin MacLeod, Marion Ross & Dick Sargent | |
Directed by | Blake Edwards | |
Edited by | Ted J. Kent & Frank Gross | |
Screenwriting by | Stanley Shapiro & Maurice Richling | |
Composition by | David Rose | |
Art Direction by | Robert Smith | |
Produced by | Robert Arthur | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Harlan & Clifford Stine |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
With shining, contarsting turns from Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, Blake Edwards's slick and funny military comedy was one of 1959's most popular films and one of Grant's biggest commercial hits in a long and brilliant career.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Without a true plot to speak of, you really watch the film for the comic set ups that all have fairly quick payoffs.
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Film School Rejects
Rating: 3/5 --
A n ice pairing of the talents of Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
Reeling Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
Splendid, if a little long, service comedy from Edwards.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Operation Petticoat has no more weight than a sackful of feathers, but it has a lot of laughs.
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Variety
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.
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The Dissolve
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]
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Groucho Reviews
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.