The Iron Petticoat (1956)
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Lensed in England, The Iron Petticoat has been out of circulation for so long that it's difficult to determine whether it is a long-lost classic or the unmitigated disaster many have claimed it to be. Essentially a rehash of Ninotchka, the film stars Bob Hope as Chuck Lockwood, an American… More Lensed in England, The Iron Petticoat has been out of circulation for so long that it's difficult to determine whether it is a long-lost classic or the unmitigated disaster many have claimed it to be. Essentially a rehash of Ninotchka, the film stars Bob Hope as Chuck Lockwood, an American military officer assigned to "de-Communize" defecting Russian aviator Vinka Kovelonko (Katharine Hepburn). Meanwhile, Vinka tries to win Chuck over to the glories of the People's Republic. The film remains on a fairly subtle comic level until its unecessarily slapsticky finale, which, in to paraphrase one reviewer, caused many film fans to completely "give up Hope." Those who've seen The Iron Petticoat are astounded at how well Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn worked together, especially since it has been well documented that the two stars were decidedly not close chums off screen. The film sparked a now-famous war of words between Hope and scriptwriter Ben Hecht, both of whom took out long, rambling trade-paper ads to lambaste each other for "ruining" the project. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ralph Thomas
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 7, 1957 Wide
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Cast
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Bob Hope
as Maj. Chuck Lockwood
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Katharine Hepburn
as Vinka Kovelenko
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James Robertson Justice
as Col. Sklarnoff
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Robert Helpmann
as Ivan Kropotkin
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David Kossoff
as Dr. Dubratz
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Alan Gifford
as Col. Newton Tarbell
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Paul Carpenter
as Maj. Lewis
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Noelle Middleton
as Connie
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Nicholas Phipps
as Tony Mallard
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Sidney James
as Paul
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Alexander Gauge
as Senator Holly
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Tutte Lemkow
as Sutsiyawa
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Sandra Dorne
as Tityana
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Richard Wattis
as Lingerie Clerk
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Maria Antippas
as Sklarnoff's Secretary
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Martin Boddey
as Grisha
- Alexis Chesnakov
- Eugene Deckers
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Doris Goddard
as Maria
- Richard Leech
- Olaf Pooley
