Operation Petticoat (1959)

Written by Paul King, Joseph Stone

Directed by Blake Edwards

Running Time: 125 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1959

Rating: U Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

Cary Grant stars in this Oscar-nominated WWII comedy as the commander of a crippled submarine that's returned to operational duties by the skills and scrounging of junior officer Tony Curtis. Leaving the Philippines days ahead of the invading Japanese and with the submarine painted bright pink and now home to five stranded army nurses plus Filipino refugees, they must evade both the Japanese and their own Navy, who have no record of a pink submarine

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Cast

	Cary Grant		Cmdr. Matt Sherman
	Tony Curtis		Lt. Nicholas Holden
	Joan O'Brien		Lt. Dolores Crandall RN
	Dina Merrill		Lt. Barbara Duran RN
	Gene Evans		Molumphry
	Dick Sargent		Stovall
	Virginia Gregg		Maj. Edna Heywood RN
	Robert F. Simon		Capt. J.B. Henderson
	Robert Gist		Lt. Watson
	Gavin MacLeod		Ernest Hunkle
	George Dunn		The Prophet
	Dick Crockett		Harmon
	Madlyn Rhue		Lt. Reid RN
	Marion Ross		Lt. Colfax RN
	Clarence Lung		Sgt. Ramon Gillardo