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This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2008) The Iron Petticoat Theatrical release poster Directed by Ralph Thomas Produced by Betty E. Box Harry Saltzman Written by Ben Hecht Harry Saltzman Starring Bob Hope Katharine Hepburn james Robertson Justice Sid james Music by Benjamin Frankel Cinematography Ernest Steward Distributed by London Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (U.S.) Release date(s) 7 January 1957 Running time 87 minutes Language English The Iron Petticoat is a 1956 Cold War comedy film starring Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn and directed by Ralph Thomas. Contents 1 Plot 2 Production 3 References 4 External links Plot Captain Vinka Kovelenko lands a Russian jet in West German territory, to the surprise of U.S. armed forces who take her prisoner. She is neither on a mission nor defecting, however, just upset about a personal matter back home. A high-ranking American officer named Tarbell cancels the furlough of Captain Chuck Lockwood, who is eager to leave for London and visit his wealthy fiancee Connie. The colonel wants Chuck to sell the Soviet aviatrix on everything that's good about America and permanently come over to their side. He even dangles a $100,000 bonus if she does. Vinka is pursued by her former lover, Ivan, an engineer. She shows no interest in Chuck and is just as determined to sell him on Russian virtues as he is on influencing her. He describes her as cold and unappealing, but when Connie makes a surprise visit, Vinka strolls into Chuck's room wearing little else but a pajama top and her military medals. Connie is getting increasingly angry with Chuck, more so when she finds out that he isn't as well-off financially as he has pretended to be. Vinka begins to dress more and more in an enticing manner. One night at a Russian restaurant, comrades come to kidnap her. A sleeping potion meant for Chuck ends up in Tarbell's drink instead. Connie is mistaken for Vinka in a cloak room and taken captive. In time, the Russians misunderstand Vinka's intentions and charge her with treason. Chuck leads a daring escape in the air and they end up falling in love. Money doesn't matter as much to Vinka as it did to Connie, but, just the same, she takes the $100,000. Production The original story Not for Money was written by Ben Hecht with Hepburn in mind to play Captain Vinka Kovelenko, a Russian aviatrix who lands in West Germany. After her defection she is quickly converted to capitalism after sampling life in the West in the company of Major Chuck Lockwood (Hope). There are subplots with Lockwood trying to marry Connie (Noelle Middleton), a member of the British upper class, and Communist agents trying to get Kovelenko to come back to the U.S.S.R. (see List of Cold War pilot defections) The main story owes a lot to Greta Garbo's Ninotchka and Josef Von Sternberg's Jet Pilot with Janet Leigh as the Russian pilot and John Wayne as the U.S. Air Force officer. Jet Pilot was filmed in 1950 but not released until 1957. When Hope had concerns that Hecht's script was unfinished, he turned the script over to his own writers to punch it up and tailor it to his style (as was his usual practice[1]). Many of Hepburn's best scenes ended up on the cutting room floor and the title was changed from Not For Money. As Hecht later told Mike Wallace, "the movie was written for a lady, Miss Katherine Hepburn, and ended up instead as a role for the hero, Mr. Bob Hope, Miss Hepburn was removed from in by fifty percent. I got irritated and took my name off it -– it had nothing to do with the movie I wrote."[2] Hecht printed an open letter in the film trade journals disclaiming the picture and offering Hepburn and her fans an apology. Hope replied with an open letter apologising that Hecht had a hit on his hands and hoped they would keep up corresponding in public. The film's credits ended up saying it was "Based on an Original Story by Harry Saltzman." By contrast, Hope played his role (that was first offered to Cary Grant) in the manner of a handsome leading man rather than his usual wise cracking coward. Harry Saltzman often joked that his first motion picture production was the ONLY Bob Hope film that failed at the box office. References ^ Faith, William Robert Bob Hope: A Life in Comedy Da Capo Press (2003) ^ Ben Hecht: The Mike Wallace Interview, Feb. 15, 1958 archived at Harry Ransom Center, University of Tennessee, Austin: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/hecht_ben_t.html External links The Iron Petticoat at the Internet Movie Database v · d · eCinema of the United Kingdom Films A–Z · Actors · Directors · Cinematographers · Production designers · Editors · Producers · Score composers · Screenwriters · Home Video Charts Production companies and studios Aardman Animations · BBC Films · British Lion Films  · Denham Film Studios · Ealing Studios · Elstree Studios · Film4 Productions · Gainsborough Pictures · Goldcrest Films · Hammer Film Productions · HandMade Films · Leavesden Film Studios · Palace Pictures · Pinewood Studios · Rank Organisation · Shepperton Studios · Working Title Films · S4C Films · Rank Organisation · Wimbledon Studios Organisations BAFTA · British Board of Film Classification · British Film Institute · BFI National Archive · BFI Southbank · British Society of Cinematographers · Children's Film Foundation · Cinema Exhibitors' Association · National Film and Television School · National Media Museum · Northern Ireland Screen · Scottish Screen · UK Film Council See also British New Wave · Carry On · Documentary Film Movement · Eady Levy · Free Cinema · Harry Potter · James Bond · London Film Festival · Quota quickies Films by year Pre 1920 · 1920s · 1930s · 1940 · 1941 · 1942 · 1943 · 1944 · 1945 · 1946 · 1947 · 1948 · 1949 · 1950 · 1951 · 1952 · 1953 · 1954 · 1955 · 1956 · 1957 · 1958 · 1959 · 1960 · 1961 · 1962 · 1963 · 1964 · 1965 · 1966 · 1967 · 1968 · 1969 · 1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979 · 1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989 · 1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 v · d · eThe films of Ralph Thomas 1940s Once Upon a Dream (1949) • Helter Skelter (1949) • Traveller's Joy (1949) 1950s The Clouded Yellow (1950) • Appointment with Venus (1951) • Venetian Bird (1952) • A Day to Remember (1953) • The Dog and the Diamonds (1953) • Doctor in the House (1954) • Mad About Men (1954) • Above Us the Waves (1955) • Doctor at Sea (1955) • The Iron Petticoat (1956) • Checkpoint (1956) • Doctor at Large (1957) • Campbell's Kingdom (1957) • A Tale of Two Cities (1958) • The Wind Cannot Read (1958) • The 39 Steps (1959) • Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) 1960s Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) • Doctor in Love (1960) • No Love for Johnnie (1961) • No My Darling Daughter (1961) • A Pair of Briefs (1962) • Carry On Cruising (1962) • The Wild and the Willing (1962) • Doctor in Distress (1963) • Hot Enough for June (1964) • The High Bright Sun (1964) • Doctor in Clover (1966) • Deadlier Than the Male (1967) • Nobody Runs Forever (1968) • Some Girls Do (1969) 1970s Doctor in Trouble (1970) • Percy (1971)• Quest for Love (1971)• The Love Ban (1973)• Percy's Progress (1974) • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979) This film article about a 1950s comedy is a stub. 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