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5.6/10   247 votes
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Director:
Ralph Thomas
Writer:
Ben Hecht (screenplay)
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Release Date:
7 January 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
Bob and Kate...Simply Great more
Plot:
Captain Vinka Kovelenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Dreadful nonsense that makes 87 minutes feel like 200 more (12 total)

Cast

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Bob Hope ... Major Charles "Chuck" Lockwood

Katharine Hepburn ... Captain Vinka Kovelenko
Noelle Middleton ... Lady Connie Warburton-Watts
James Robertson Justice ... Colonel Sklarnoff
Robert Helpmann ... Ivan Kropotkin
David Kossoff ... Dr. Anton Dubratz
Alan Gifford ... Colonel Newt Tarbell
Nicholas Phipps ... Tony Mallard
Paul Carpenter ... Major Lewis
Sid James ... Paul (as Sidney James)
Alexander Gauge ... Senator Howley
Sandra Dorne ... Tityana
Richard Wattis ... Lingerie Clerk
Tutte Lemkow ... Sutsiyawa
Olaf Pooley
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Not for Money
Ballade i luften (Denmark) [da]
Der eiserne Unterrock (West Germany) [de]
Faldas de acero (Spain) [es]
Faldilles d'acer (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
Kamrat i svarta spetsar (Sweden) [sv]
La sottana di ferro (Italy) [it]
Ouisky, vodka kai siderenia fousta (Greece) [el]
Rautainen alushame (Finland) [fi]
Whisky en vodka (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
Whisky et vodka (Belgium: French title) [fr]
Whisky, vodka et jupon de fer (France) [fr]
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Runtime:
87 min | UK:106 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
UK:A (original rating) | UK:U | Italy:T | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:Btl
Filming Locations:
Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, UK more
Company:
London Film Productions more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Colonel Tarbell: It doesn't hurt to tantalize em'.
Major Chuck Lockwood: Tantalize an heiress? That's like not opening your parachute!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Harry Saltzman: Showman (2000) (V) more

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
Dreadful nonsense that makes 87 minutes feel like 200, 17 January 2008
4/10
Author: Welly-2 from England

What was Hepburn thinking? This is a really poor film that goes nowhere and feels like it takes a long time doing it. Bob Hope relies, as ever, on the knowing side-glances but hasn't anything funny to say to justify them, whilst Hepburn spends the whole film doing a dreadful Russian accent to no purpose other than to annoy. It's a clumsy, stereotyped and frankly disturbing film that says much about the paranoia of the times. For the film's publicity to rave about the chemistry between Hepburn and Hope is laughable....their only chemistry is of the kind that brews sleeping potions.

Is there anything to salvage 87 minutes that feels like 200? Absolutely, the great Richard Wattis makes an appearance just as you are reaching for the remote. It's only a brief moment as he tries to sell sexy under-ware to Hepburn, but it's an oasis worth waiting for.

Bottom line....dreadful nonsense that never raises a smile

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