Operation Petticoat [Reino Unido]

Se ha utilizado un nuevo doblaje que, no siendo malo en general, distorsiona de tal modo la voz en castellano de Cary Grant que la hace irreconocible de tan artificialmente grave que resulta. No se da la opción a el doblaje original que si estaba disponible en el dvd. Una destroza que, en mi opinión, desaconseja completamente la compra. Personalmente me da igual que sea un BDR porque lo ilegal serán (o no) los derechos de autor pero los soportes nunca son ilegales. Si se encuentra en el mercado y nadie lo impide habrá que pensar en que tales derechos están en regla.

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Andy Gaffney

Good quality

Revisado en España el 12 de marzo de 2022

Very happy with this buy , a little expensive but the quality and sound were excellent and not what some of the other reviews said

Ismael

no vale en español

Revisado en España el 23 de octubre de 2021

la pelicula no esta en español un fallo descomunal

Edición top-manta pasable a falta de otra.

Amazon Customer

Revisado en España el 27 de diciembre de 2014

Dejando a un lado que se trata de otra chapuza Bd-R, la imagen está bien restaurada y no me da errores.

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falconchips

Disco Bluray BR-R

Revisado en España el 27 de octubre de 2014

De pena que saquen un clásico como este en un Bluray grabable, como si fuera el top manta. Dejando al margen la durabilidad del soporte, el problema es la compatibilidad con lectores como el de la Playstation, que dan problemas.

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Frank Windelband

Bootleg

Revisado en España el 28 de enero de 2015

And another bootleg, ripped from the American disc by Olive Films on a BD-R. Better avoid this one and buy the original.

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¡¡CUIDADO!! ¡¡ES UN BD-R!!

Revisado en España el 24 de septiembre de 2015

Comentario a la edición española en BD.
Parte técnica: La película está editada en un disco BD-R (un disco "tostado"). La calidad de imagen en cuanto a definición, color y contraste es buena, pero tiene en su contra que está salpicada a lo largo de todo el metraje de un sin fin de impurezas (puntos, rayas,...) que perjudican el visionado.
Parte artística: Comedia muy divertida para pasar un rato muy agradable.

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A. W. Wilson

OPERATION PETTICOAT BLURAY/DVD COMBO from EUREKA DEC 2019

Revisado en Reino Unido el 10 de febrero de 2021

Watched the BLURAY and it was very good picture and colour wise, with good sound and clear subtitles. No extras. It had been many years since my last viewing and I couldn't remember if I liked the film...Now I do...it's very good, funny mostly with witty dialogue and excellent acting from Grant and Curtis, both in roles they can play almost in their sleep (and I mean that as a compliment to both). The plot is simple. Will the battered sub make it to port for repairs when the japanese are everywhere, in the air and at sea. It doesn't help when the captain (Grant) has to take on board 5 nurses (at which point (the halfway mark) you might think the plot gets very silly. It does but in such a way as to be a great deal of fun without being too silly or mawkish. The crew is well cast. Not too macho (you want macho watch "Hell and High Water"), but convincing in a mostly lighthearted way. Gene Evans, Artheur O'Connell are particularly impressive. The nurses are mostly underused except for Joan O'Brien and Dina Merrill who provide love interest for Grant and Curtis (and in my opinion it should have bee Grant/Merrill and Curtis/O'Brien). Quite a bit of action and tension all well filmed by Blake Edwards. Indeed the scale of filming is very imressive. A good 2 hours of honest fun, suitable for all, though I suppose some might find it a bit dated??? I didn't! Recomended.

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cora

Screwball Comedy at its Best

Revisado en Reino Unido el 5 de diciembre de 2018

This is really a highly enjoyable little family film with the laughs coming thick and fast. Despite the wartime setting, it's all lighthearted and fun. The confined space in a submarine makes for awkward situations, but there is none of the claustrophobia of other submarine films. Cary Grant manages to remain classy as the commanding officer even when his boat boat is pink on the outside and a maternity ward on the inside. Tony Curtis is hilarious as his resourceful lieutenant. It's all good clean fun that should keep the entire family nicely entertained on a wet winter afternoon. The DVD is fine. Both picture and sound are very nice for a film from the time. Subtitles are not available on the DVD I bought.

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Darth Maciek

"We may be pink, and coming in by the grace of a woman's brassiere, but by God, we're coming in!"

Revisado en Reino Unido el 7 de febrero de 2014

This is an adorable, brilliant, charming, delirious, enchanting, formidable, grandiose, heart-warming, intelligent, joyful, knee-slapping, lovely, merry, neat, original, perfect, quixotic, ravishing, splendid, terrific, unforgettable, voluptuous, wonderful, (non)xeric(1), yummy, zany war comedy packing MEGATONS of sheer fun.

It begins in 1959, when Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant), commander of all US submarines in the Pacific, comes to visit a last time an obsolete submarine, the USS "Sea Tiger" (a fictional name - no US Navy ship was ever so named), prior to her departure for the scrapyard. Admiral Sherman used to command USS "Sea Tiger" during the WWII and he wants to say goodbye to his old valiant ship. Once on board, he begins to read the old captain's logbook, containing the description of the first and most memorable months he spend with USS "Sea Tiger" during the wartime.

We move then to the war time, the 10 December 1941, to one of US Navy naval bases in Philippines. During a vicious sneak Japanese air raid USS "Sea Tiger" was grievously damaged. And then the film really begins, with the desperate attempts of the whole crew to make their boat seaworthy again, so she can escape from Philippines and go to Australia. When coordinating those efforts, Captain Sherman will have to deal not only with the damage already suffered and with the constant enemy threat but also with two more unexpected calamities: a newly affected to USS "Sea Tiger" horribly incompetent executive officer, Lieutenant Holden (Tony Curtis) and five Army nurses, who are to be evacuated to Australia. Even worse, one of the nurses, Second Lieutenant Dolores Crandall (Joan O'Brien), an otherwise nice and clever person (cute like a button too) is also UNBELIEVABLY clumsy and accident prone - in fact the crew of USS "Sea Tiger" will soon consider her as a greater threat than Japanese destroyers...)))

Enough said here about the story, the rest is for you to discover.

It was actually Tony Curtis who had the idea for the scenario and proposed a first draft to Blake Edwards - he was also the one to propose Cary Grant for the role of Captain (later Rear Admiral) Sherman. His inspiration for this choice was the 1943 film "Destination Tokyo", in which Grant already played brilliantly a tough but humane, non-nonsense sub-marine commander.

US Department of Defense and US Navy adored the scenario and contributed generously all kind of assistance including no less than THREE WWII-era submarines, which were then still being held in reserve: USS "Balao", USS "Queenfish" and USS "Archerfish". All the three of those subs participated very actively in WWII in Pacific, but the most famous of them was the USS "Archerfish", which on 29 November 1944 sunk Japanese giant aircraft carrier "Shinano" (68 000 tons!). This was and still remains until now the LARGEST warship ever sunk by a submarine...

This film is a pure comedy, not trying to get serious at any moment and therefore even if it is war, nobody on board of USS "Sea Tiger" dies during the film (well, with the exception of Seaman Hornsby) - and the damage this valiant ship inflicts to the enemy is marginal, at best...))) The whole tone of the film is light-hearted and merry, but Blake Edwards avoided the trap of veering into full burlesque and slapstick - and therefore realities are actually mostly respected. The Japanese shoot real munitions and drop real bombs, even if their aim is mostly horrible. The Military Police, although clearly made of not very bright characters, nevertheless tries to do its job seriously. The high ranking officers say and do things that (mostly) make sense and they too really try to do their job.

The efforts to repair and maintain USS "Sea Tiger" also seem pretty realistic, even if they too offer some occasion for humour, because of the very, very poor shape in which initial Japanese attack left this valiant but unfortunate ship. The bureaucratic troubles affecting the crucial supplies and spares were actually inspired by some REAL war time correspondence between infuriated and desperate sub-marine captains and (mostly) competent and well-meaning but frequently completely overwhelmed by war time chaos logistics personnel...)))

For a comedy this is a surprisingly long film - it lasts 124 minutes - but I definitely didn't feel the time passing. To the contrary, at the very end I was very much game for more and indeed in 1977 there was an attempt to make TV series based on this film ("Petticoat Affair") - but it was far from the level of the original and was cancelled after one and a half season.

There is also a logical explanation for the length of this film - USS "Sea Tiger" must travel the whole way from Philippines to Australia while damaged and therefore she goes at slow speed and must stop from time to time for more repairs. To underline the poor condition of the ship Blake Edwards added a recurrent acoustic effect, which is usually not associated with submarines - it opens and closes all successive chapters of this most peculiar odyssey and made me roar with laughter every single time...)))

But the greatest treasure of this highly successful comedy is the kind of humour it uses. Based both on dialogs and on situations, it is very intelligent, subtle, merry, light-hearted and especially NEVER vulgar! There is no villains in this film (well, except for the Japanese, but they always remain at distance) and even if people sometimes say not very clever things or do some not very clever things, nobody is actually ridiculed. In fact, this film is GENTLE and HEART-WARMING from the very first to the very last scene - and that is a greatly precious thing.

The art of doing such gentle and optimistic comedies seems to be somehow lost, as there is very few of them in recent times (I can think only of "While you were sleeping"). I tried to imagine for a moment how would a modern remake of "Operation Petticoat" look - and I shivered with horror...

Bottom line, this is a great treasure of cinema and one of the best comedies I ever watched. A film to buy, watch and keep. Enjoy!

(1) I had to go with (non)xeric, which means (not)adapted to dry environment, because good luck finding another adjective beginning with "x", that could even remotely be relevant when describing this film...

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Ayrshire Davie

Great Film and a Bargain

Revisado en Reino Unido el 14 de octubre de 2021

This is a classic comedy with the two main stars at their best. The colour is luscious and the action romps along. This edition is a bargain with a DVD and a Blue Ray disc in the package. Excellent fun.

Rob

Old school, kiddie friendly WWII film

Revisado en Reino Unido el 16 de abril de 2013

I love this film, it's inoffensive fun.

You don't need to be into WWII, or submarines, etc. It's a story about an illfated brand new sub, that gets bombed within months of going into use. The Captain refuses to allow his new baby to be abandoned and blown up to deny the enemy, so he proceeds to limp half way across the Pacific to get to a safe port. This requires the patching, make do and mend only the Navy could muster.

A long story short, he ends up with evacuee Nurses aboard, the boat ends up Pink, and it's simply a relaxing funny film to flop with. Ideal for a flu ridden afternoon, a comfort film, we need more of them.