Operation Petticoat is pretty delightful. It's a silly, totally absurd comedy about a submarine that gets sunk before it leaves Pearl Harbor but whose captain insists on repairing it anyway and sailing it into battle. It's the kind of farcical take on World War II that Spielberg was aiming to make when he made his worst film, 1941.
I watched Operation Petticoat on the Criterion Channel, where they were playing a series of Cary Grant's broad comedy films. Grant is hilarious in this. Tony Curtis is funny, too, and is as femme as ever.
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