Wonderful character development!

What makes it different from others?

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Always liked Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, and for me they were very good in comedies, they had such a natural talent in this genre. And Blake Edwards is one of the best directors that ever directed them.This movie is set in December 1941. Commander Matt Sherman is a submarine captain. When the submarine is damaged, the crew manages to repair it. Then arrives a supply officer, Lt. Nick Holden, a officer with no naval experience at all. Then the submarine goes to Australia, and then on a deserted island, but with only five nurses, and then trouble begins! I liked especially the scene when the submarine stops near Korea and Curtis has to steal a pig from a farm and with a coat and the help of another sailor, arrive safe at the submarine.The cast is good, especially the Grant-Curtis team, and also the supporting actors: Dick Sargent, Dina Merrill, Arthur O'Connell and Joan O'Brien.Worth seeing for the cast and laughter is assured!

Cary Grant and Tony Curtis teams up in this one of a kind comedy about a submarine at sea during WWII.Submarine Sea Tiger docked at harbor gets attacked by the Japanese, and nearly sinks. The newly appointed executive officer Lt. Holden (Tony Curtis) knows nothing about seamanship, but knows plenty about how to get in the back door of the supply room. The sub is ready to ship out, but not quite shipshape. While going ashore on an island, they discover American women stranded there, and brings them aboard. Plenty of mishaps, and misadventure follows the crew of the submarine. This includes being hunted by US destroyer thinking that the submarine painted in pink is an enemy vessel.This frequently seen movie never seems to get old. The humor still works in the 21st century. Performance of Cary Grant, and Tony Curtis is one of the best. Scenery set in the south pacific is also beautiful.One of the finest comedy from the '50s and one of the best comedy Cary Grant and Tony Curtis starred in.

A slightly overlong,sometimes stately,but amusing wartime comedy,OPERATION PETTICOAT is one of Blake Edwards' better comedies,lacking the occasional excesses and self-congratulation that marred his later work with Peter Sellers on the PINK PANTHER series,and further work post-1980.After some rather sluggish and verbose preliminaries,Edwards gets into his comedic stride assuredly (though the serious side of war is not always jettisoned)when the submarine begins it's operations,with a fine performance from Tony Curtis as a scheming,scrounging,but likable Navy officer,and a better one from the great Cary Grant as a taciturn submarine captain.Grant's expert verbal and facial dexterity are a delight to watch,both from a comic and serious point of view,and produce some deliciously telling moments.Curtis is almost as good performing alongside his long time acting idol,not being overawed and giving a convincing account of himself in the many scenes he shares with Grant. The two principals dominate to such an extent that the supporting cast are not given that much to do,though Arthur O'Connell,Dick Sargent and Frankie Darro have some funny moments between them.The addition of female navy ratings causing raised male libidos (with elegant blonde Dina Merrill most prominent)is treated in very mild fashion,but all the better for it,despite several slightly sexist jokes directed at the buxom Joan O'Brien.Edwards' habit of indulging in crude slapstick is fairly restrained here,though when he does it actually works better than usual in most of his films,the majority of these antics involving Miss O' Brien,though the funniest knockabout moments are reserved for Curtis and Gavin MacLeod with their successful if clumsy kidnapping of a pig while the sub is stationed on a pacific island.Despite taking a while to get going,OPERATION PETTICOAT is an entertaining and often very funny effort with memorable moments (who can forget the submarine being painted pink?),with another masterclass in screen acting from one of it's greatest stars,Cary Grant.RATING:7 out of 10.

In Tony Curtis's filmed tribute to Cary Grant for TCM he made much of his well known idolatry of the man who made him want to become an actor. As a kid growing up in the mean streets of New York, young Bernie Schwartz saw in Cary Grant all he ever wanted to be up there on the silver screen.During naval service on board a submarine in World War II he got to see Cary Grant in Warner Brothers Destination Tokyo. As Curtis said, life has a funny way of working things out. What happens; Tony Curtis gets to star with Grant years later in a World War II service comedy that is set aboard a submarine.Destination Tokyo was not one of Grant's best films, but Operation Petticoat definitely is. Right after World War II starts, Grant's new ship, the Tigerfish is sunk right in her berth in a remote Pacific Island. Grant persuades Admiral Robert Simon to make whatever repairs he can and try and get the ship back to Pearl Harbor for repairs.Among other things Grant gets is a new officer Tony Curtis who hasn't exactly seen much sea duty, but he's quite the operator. The two develop quite an interesting relationship on the voyage.And it's one thing after another on that memorable shakedown cruise back to Pearl Harbor. But Cary Grant is as unflappable and charming as ever, though even he seems a bit put out at times.There are some pretty hilarious moments in Operation Petticoat, the sinking of a truck, the painting of the Tigerfish pink and then having to leave it that way until Pearl Harbor. And who can forget how they are saved from friendly fire at the climax of the film.Operation Petticoat was one of the biggest commercial and critical hits that Cary Grant had in Hollywood. Coming right after North By Northwest it could well be argued this was the high point of his career.The film holds up very well today, I think today's audience would laugh just as hard as they did in 1959.