Operation Petticoat | Cary Grant, Tony Curtis

Operation Petticoat | Cary Grant, Tony Curtis | Pink not Blue

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Operation Petticoat

	Operation Petticoat Cary Grant, Tony Curtis Republic Pictures, 2001 average customer review:based on 63 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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Service was fantastic. Recieved it even before the due date. Always loved this movie.

Pink not Blue

One of the better old comedies that Cary Grant is true blue even if his sub isn't.

Hilarious. This is a must see movie

My Mom in particular loved Tony (Anthony) Curtis and Cary Grant. What a pleasure to have both in the same movie! You'll laugh your pants off with this one. One of the all time greats.

Breezy Service Comedy

The high point of "Operation Petticoat" is the repartee between a deadpan Cary Grant as the beleagured sub captain and Tony Curtis' smooth operator. The film is consistently entertaining but I would have to say the laugh consistency falls somewhere between classic screwball and sitcom. This film is a good antedote for one of those gloomy days and you want to let in a little sunshine. On a side note does anybody remember the sitcom this film spun-off circa 1977-78 with John Astin in the Grant role and a very young Jaime Lee Curtis as one of the nurses?

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A Highlight of Tony's Career

Wasn't this the movie that made Cary Grant the most money, the most successful Grant film, and the one that broke the record for consecutive weeks at NY's Radio City Music Hall? After a recent re-viewing, I can see why, although it is hardly Grant's best. In fact, I don't suppose it even approaches his Top Twenty. For Tony Curtis, it's a different story. Tony, signed for most of his studio career to Universal, didn't really get much of a chance to develop his full potential, and except for oddities like SOME LIKE IT HOT, THE VIKINGS, and SPARTACUS, most of his films were pretty much dreck. (Think of all the classic directors whom Janet Leigh worked with, and then ask yourself how did Tony fail to take advantage of his status as #1 USA leading man.) But OPERATION PETTICOAT does give you an idea of the kinds of things Tony was best at, and kudos to the young Blake Edwards for writing him such a good part with page after page of surefire comic situations and stage business.

Had the script been filmed ten years later, well, Grant wouldn't have been in it of course, but I think the times would have allowed more of the full implications of Tony's character's sleazy promiscuity to emerge; here the sexuality is tamped a bit by the submarine setting and the general Radio City atmosphere. Wasn't Cary Grant even the least little bit annoyed by playing a script in which he would be basically the old fuddy-duddy like James Cagney in MISTER ROBERTS, with Tony as the playboy, the signature Cary Grant role? In fact OPERATION PETTICOAT must have been trying for some of the "Everyman" service comedy of MISTER ROBERTS, it has the same febrile energy and, in his awkward introduction of servicewomen and other female stereotypes, something of the same drab fire; I imagine women enter both films only to suggest that there wasn't any hanky-panky between Cary and Tony because no way could either of them have been gay.

Dina Merrill is appropriately icy here, as though she knows she's not really welcome, she's just there to allay suspicion. I love her look, but she's no Grace Kelly, that's for sure, and human warmth is as far away from her range as working-class solidarity.

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