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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 impersonated Grant that same year in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot), a shameless hustler, is better than the navy at delivering whatever supplies the ship and crew need to keep going. But when Curtis sneaks a handful of Philippine refugees and several gorgeous nurses onto the all-male sub, the skipper not only has to cool down his crew but deal with an unexpected feminine influence on ship protocol. The film is a great deal of fun, sprinkled with the director's trademark sight gags (including one of Edwards's best, involving a torpedo and jeep), and graced with his unmistakable lilt. Grant is in great form, his comic brilliance almost impossibly effortless. --Tom Keogh
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Cary Grant and Tony Curtis star as naval officers in this service comedy, one of the director's favorite genres. When Adm. Matt Sherman's (Grant) submarine, the Sea Tiger, is damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he needs to find spare parts to have it recommissioned. Into the breach steps aide Lt. Nick Holden (Curtis), a master con man and wheeler-dealer who begins scheming to acquire the materials needed to fix the sub while the appalled Sherman looks the other way. Once the sub is deemed seaworthy, they stop at an island where Holden picks up a couple of Filipino families and five navy nurses who have been stranded there. The arrival of the extremely attractive nurses in the sub's cramped quarters has the predicted effect on the young, all-male crew, who soon find concentrating on their work to be an impossible task. The women also have their own ideas about the renovation of the submarine, one of which involves painting it pink. Despite the dated 1950s gender stereotypes, the comic genius of Grant and the energy of Curtis, in addition to a script witty enough to have been nominated for an Academy Award, keep the film afloat. Among the talented cast are Dick Sargent, Arthur O'Connell, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, and Gavin McLeod, who would later return to the seas as the captain of The Love Boat.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is one of the great classics and if you're a Cary Grant fan then this is simply a must see.
Cary Grant comes as the submarine captain who is landed with Tony Curtis as his "supply" officer. Tony's methods of acquisition are not always orthodox. At one point, a make-shift casino in the moutains is referred tactfully as the supply station.
Things get complicated when the men rescue a band of US Nurses from an island, but its on eof those laugh a minute movies which you can't regret.
Director: Blake Edwards.
n.b. watch "some like it hot" to see Tony Curtis do an impression of Cary Grant.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This is possibly one of my favourite Cary Grant movies. He is absolutely hilarious as the long suffering captain of the Sea Tiger a submarine that has been attacked by Japanese planes.
Tony Curtis stars as Holden his smooth talking lady loving aid who spends his time getting up to all sorts of mischief especially with one of the five nurses who join the crew on board.
The addition of the women create hilarious results. Check out the engine room scenes for a good example of this.
This is one of those feel good movies that you should watch with your family on a sunday afternoon. It will give you a lot of laughs and has a real feel good factor.
The fact that it doesn't have to resort to distastefulness, violence and bad language makes it all the better.
Oh and I don't think you will have never laughed as much as when you see a submarine that's PINK!! Brilliant.I highly recommend this movie.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The film is an old classic.The film is entertaining,funny. It is during World War 2. Somewhere in The Pacific,This brand new submarine, gets sunk in a sneak air-raid,without firing a shot,( THE Submarine is still tied up to the jetty,in port.)the crew don't want to leave it like that so they raise the submarine from where she lies.obviously she is in no fighting condition,in fact the crew are ordered to avoid even life-rafts as they may get sunk again "BY SOMEONE KICKING A HOLE IN IT." The film unfolds of the crew's adventures to get the submarine to a safe port with a skeleton crew,across thousands of miles of enemy held territory.A couple of the crew are heading straight for the brig,(cells on a ship.)But they get away with it because it is for the good of the submarine.! Funny film,one to add to the "CLASSIC" Collection.
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