Movie #1097 ........................."Iron Petticoat"

Movie #1097 "Iron Petticoat" is the only movie that paired Bob Hope and Katherine Hepburn, and I say "thank God"!  This was not funny, and for a comedy that is deadly.  In fact, the two leads appeared to be in two different movies ---- Hope was doing Hope (like in the Crosby/Hope road pictures), fast talking his away, this time around London.  And falling in love, supposedly with Hepburn?  his equal?  No way.  She, on the other hand, was playing the film full tilt as a drama about a woman being discriminated against by the government she really believes in (other than that one flaw).  Hepburn tries to do service to this mess of a film, but it doesn't work.  Of course, they kiss and become a couple by the end of this 1956 comedy, but no one believes it --- even Hope and Hepburn don't.  There are way too many good movies with these two, that you don't have to waste your time watching this one where they are unmatched and uncomfortable.  

"Iron Petticoat "    (1956)   87 minutes

Director:

 Ralph Thomas

Writer:

 Ben Hecht (screenplay)

Stars:

 Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton

Captain Vinka Kovelenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superority of communism. Naturaly, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London