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Operation Petticoat

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Original title

Operation Petticoat

Year

1959

Running time

124 min.

Country

United States

Director

Blake Edwards

Screenwriter

Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin. Story: Paul King, Joseph Stone

Cast

Music

David Rose, Henry Mancini

Cinematography

Russell Harlan

Producer

Universal International Pictures (UI), Granart Company. Producer: Robert Arthur

Genre

Comedy. War | II World War. Submarines

Synopsis

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.

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Rankings Position

#99 Best War Movies/War Film
#107 Best Movies and TV Series about the Second World War

Awards: 1959: Nominated for Oscar: Best Original Screenplay

1959: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Film - Comedy and Actor (Grant)

1959: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Comedy Screenplay

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Critics' reviews

"Blake Edwards directs with his customary wit, breeziness, and acute sense of pacing."

Don Druker: Chicago Reader
"Operation Petticoat has no more weight than a sackful of feathers, but it has a lot of laughs."

Variety Staff: Variety
"Not unpleasant, but the situations are horribly familiar, and the dialogue none too inspired."

Geoff Andrew: Time Out

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