The Iron Petticoat (1956)
Bob and Kate...Simply Great
87 min
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.
- Release date
- September 1, 1956
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
- Music
- Benjamin Frankel
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Cast
- Bob Hope as Captain Chuck Lockwood
- Katharine Hepburn as Captain Vinka Kovalenko
- Noelle Middleton as Lady Constance Warburton-Watts
- James Robertson Justice as Colonel Vladimir Denisovich Sklarnoff
- Robert Helpmann as Ivan Kropotkin
- David Kossoff as Dr. Anton Antonovich Dubratz
- Alan Gifford as Colonel Newton Tarbell
- Nicholas Phipps as Tony Mallard
- Paul Carpenter as Major Lewis
- Sidney James as Paul
- Alexander Gauge as Senator Howley
- Sandra Dorne as Tityana
- Richard Wattis as Lingerie Clerk
- Tutte Lemkow as Sutsiyawa
- Martin Boddey as Grisha
- Olaf Pooley as Major Osip Feodor Ganovich
- Richard Leech as Alex
- Eugene Deckers as Bartender
Crew
- Ralph Thomas · Director
- Ben Hecht · Writer
- Betty E. Box · Producer
- Benjamin Frankel · Composer
- Ernest Steward · Cinematographer
- Frederick Wilson · Editor