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    Iron Petticoat, The (1956)

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    Captain Vinka Kovalenko (Katharine Hepburn) – a serious-minded and officious female pilot from the Soviet Union – defects to the West because of the way women are treated by the patriarchy in her home country (she has been passed over for a promotion which went to a male colleague).

    USAF officer Captain Chuck Lockwood (Bob Hope) is ordered by the State Department to introduce her to some of the gaiety of London nightlife as a propaganda exercise to showcase the capitalist ideal.

    Kovalenko is determined to convince Chuck of the superiority of Communism and hatches a plan to take him back to Moscow to parade as an example of a liberated western male embracing Communism.

    Meanwhile, military officials at the Soviet Trade Mission based in London are of the belief that Kovalenko defected for love (for Chuck) and enlist the aid of one of her past unsuccessful suitors – mild-mannered engineer Ivan Kropotkin (Robert Helpmann) – to woo her back to the Soviet Union.

    Also in the mix is Chuck’s wealthy, aristocratic British fiancée, Lady Constance Warburton-Watts (Noelle Middleton).

    There are some great supporting roles by British actors including James Robertson Justice, Sid James, David Kossoff and Richard Wattis, but the film is a dire slice of ridiculous nonsense.

    Captain Chuck Lockwood
    Bob Hope
    Captain Vinka Kovalenko
    Katharine Hepburn
    Lady Constance Warburton-Watts
    Noelle Middleton
    Colonel Vladimir Denisovich Sklarnoff
    James Robertson Justice
    Ivan Kropotkin
    Robert Helpmann
    Dr Anton Antonovich Dubratz
    David Kossoff
    Colonel Newton Tarbell
    Alan Gifford
    Tony Mallard
    Nicholas Phipps
    Major Lewis
    Paul Carpenter
    Paul
    Sidney James
    Senator Howley
    Alexander Gauge
    Tityana
    Sandra Dorne
    Sutsiyawa
    Tutte Lemkow
    Major Osip Feodor Ganovich
    Olaf Pooley
    Grisha
    Martin Boddey
    Alex
    Richard Leech

    Director
    Ralph Thomas

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