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''Operation Petticoat'' is a 1959 American color comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Robert Arthur, directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis. The film was the basis for a television series in 1977 starring John Astin in Grant's role. Other members of the cast include several actors who went on to become television stars in the 1960s and 1970s: Gavin MacLeod of ''The Love Boat'' and ''McHale's Navy'', Marion Ross of ''Happy Days'', and Dick Sargent of ''Bewitched''. ''Operation Petticoat'' tells in flashback the misadventures of the fictional US Navy submarine, USS ''Sea Tiger'', during the opening days of World War II. Some elements of the screenplay were taken from actual incidents with some of the Pacific Fleet's submarines during the war. Paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing. ==Plot== In 1959 United States Navy Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant), ComSubPac, boards the now obsolete WWII submarine USS ''Sea Tiger'' prior to her departure for the scrapyard. Sherman, the first commanding officer of the ''Sea Tiger,'' begins reading his wartime personal logbook and recalling earlier events On 10 December 1941, a Japanese air raid sinks the ''Sea Tiger'' while she is docked at the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines. Lieutenant Commander Sherman and his crew begin repairs, hoping to sail for Darwin, Australia, before the Japanese overrun the port. Believing there is no chance of repairing the ''Sea Tiger'', the commodore of the squadron transfers most of Sherman's crew to other boats, but promises him that he will have first call on any available replacements. Lieutenant (junior grade) Nick Holden (Tony Curtis), an admiral's aide, is reassigned to the ''Sea Tiger'' despite lacking any submarine training or experience. (Holden became a naval officer not out of patriotism, but to escape poverty and to find a wealthy spouse.) Holden demonstrates great skill as a scrounger and con artist after Sherman makes him the submarine's supply officer. Early on, he teams up with Marine Sergeant Ramon Gallardo, an escaped prisoner (he was caught misappropriating Navy property to operate his own restaurant in Manila), to obtain material for the ''Sea Tiger's'' desperately needed repairs, persuading the captain to sign Ramon on as the ship's cook. What Holden and his raiders cannot find in warehouses, they "midnight requisition" from sources as varied as a civilian refrigeration plant and US Army barracks plumbing. Restored to barely seaworthy condition with only two of her four diesel engines operational (and one of them prone to backfiring and belching smoke), the ''Sea Tiger'' puts to sea and reaches Marinduque, where Sherman reluctantly agrees to evacuate five female Army nurses stranded there. Holden is attracted to Second Lieutenant Barbara Duran (Dina Merrill), while Sherman has a series of embarrassing encounters with the well-endowed and clumsy Second Lieutenant Dolores Crandall (Joan O'Brien). Later, when Sherman prepares to attack an enemy oiler moored to a pier, Crandall accidentally launches the torpedo prematurely. It misses its target, instead obliterating something else on the beach. "We sunk a truck!" Sherman says in disbelief before being forced to flee Japanese gunfire. Captain Sherman tries to put the nurses ashore at Cebu, but the Army refuses to accept them, as the Japanese are closing in. When Sherman is unable to obtain needed supplies from official sources, he allows Holden to set up a casino in order to acquire them from soldiers who have hidden everything from future Japanese occupation forces. One item Chief Torpedoman Molumphry (the Chief of the Boat) has been asking for is paint. Holden manages to scrounge some red and white lead primer paint, but does not have enough of either color to prime the entire sub. The two have to be mixed together, resulting in a bright pink primer that the chief reluctantly orders applied to the ''Sea Tiger''. A Japanese air raid forces a hasty departure before the crew can apply a top coat of navy gray. Tokyo Rose mocks the mysterious pink submarine operating in the Celebes Sea; the United States Navy believes it to be a Japanese trick and orders it be sunk on sight. An American destroyer spots the surfaced ''Sea Tiger'' and opens fire, then launches depth charges when Sherman crash dives. Captain Sherman tries to trick the destroyer by sending up oil and launching blankets, pillows, and life jackets, but the attacks continue. Finally, at Holden's suggestion, Sherman ejects the nurses' lingerie. Crandall's bra convinces the destroyer's captain that "the Japanese have nothing like this," and he ceases firing. The ''Sea Tiger'', still pink, arrives at Darwin, battered but under her own power. Returning to the present, the arrival of Commander Nick Holden, his wife (the former Lieutenant Duran), and their sons interrupts Sherman's reminiscences. Sherman promises Holden command of a new nuclear-powered submarine to be named the ''Sea Tiger''. Sherman's wife (the former Lieutenant Crandall) arrives late with their daughters and rear-ends her husband's staff car, causing it to lock bumpers with a bus. When the bus drives away, it drags the car along. Sherman reassures his wife that it will be stopped at the main gate. Captain Holden takes the ''Sea Tiger'' out on her final run to be scrapped, her No. 1 engine punctuating the departure with one last belch of black smoke. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Operation Petticoat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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