The Iron Petticoat (1956)
September 1, 1956Release Date
The Iron Petticoat (1956)
September 1, 1956Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Bob Hope
Captain Chuck Lockwood
Katharine Hepburn
Captain Vinka Kovalenko
Noelle Middleton
Lady Constance Warburton-Watts
James Robertson Justice
Colonel Vladimir Denisovich Sklarnoff
Robert Helpmann
Ivan Kropotkin
David Kossoff
Dr. Anton Antonovich Dubratz
Alan Gifford
Colonel Newton Tarbell
Nicholas Phipps
Tony Mallard
Sid James
Paul
Paul Carpenter
Major Lewis
Alexander Gauge
Senator Howley
Sandra Dorne
Tityana
Richard Wattis
Lingerie Clerk
Tutte Lemkow
Sutsiyawa
Martin Boddey
Grisha
Olaf Pooley
Major Osip Feodor Ganovich
Richard Leech
Alex
Eugene Deckers
Bartender
Ralph Thomas
Director
Ben Hecht
Screenplay
Roger Cherrill
Sound Editor
Gordon K. McCallum
Sound Recordist
John W. Mitchell
Sound Recordist
Ernest Steward
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 1, 1956
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom
Genres
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The Iron Petticoat (also known as Not for Money) is a 1956 British Cold War comedy film starring Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn, and directed by Ralph Thomas. The screenplay by Ben Hecht became the focus of a contentious history behind the production, and led to the film's eventual suppression by Hope. Hecht had been part of the screenwriting team on the similarly themed Comrade X (1940).
Hepburn plays a Soviet military pilot who lands in West Germany and, after sampling life in the West in the company of Hope's Major Chuck Lockwood, is converted to capitalism. Subplots involve Lockwood trying to marry a member of the British upper class and communist agents trying to coerce Hepburn's character to return to the Soviet Union.
The main story borrows heavily from Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939), starring Greta Garbo, and very closely resembles Josef von Sternberg's Jet Pilot with Janet Leigh as the Russian pilot and John Wayne as the US Air Force officer. Jet Pilot, inspired by real-life Cold War pilot defections, completed principal photography in 1950 but was not released until 1957, after The Iron Petticoat.