Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat1959

Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans
Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 124 minutes

Blake Edwards's delightful 1959 comedy stars Cary Grant as a World War II submarine captain whose preference for a by-the-book command reluctantly yields to certain realities. Chief among those is that Grant's first officer (Tony Curtis, who imperso… more »



Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman:
Subject, Toilet paper. One, on 6 June 1941 this vessel submitted a requisition for 150 rolls of toilet paper. On 16 December 1941 the requisition was returned with stamped notation, 'Cannot identify material required.' Two, the commanding officer of the USS SeaTiger cannot help but wonder what is being used at the Caviti Supply Depot as a substitute for this unidentifiable material once so well known to this command.

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