Operation Petticoat (1959)
"20,000 laughs under the sea!"
ThumbScore
👍 87%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 81%
(RT: 81%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Joan O'Brien as 2nd Lieutenant Dolores Crandall
Dina Merrill as 2nd Lieutenant Barbara Duran
Gene Evans as Chief Molumphry
Dick Sargent as Ensign Stovall (as Richard Sargent)
Virginia Gregg as Major Edna Heywood
Robert F. Simon as Captain J.B. Henderson
Is Operation Petticoat good?
Yes. 87% audience score, estimated from 431 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 81%.
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Overview
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses. Wikipedia ↗
