The Iron Petticoat

Overview

Captain Vinka Kovalenko 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 superiority of communism. Naturally, 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.

Directed by Ralph Thomas

Top cast

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

Paul Carpenter

Major Lewis

Sidney James

Paul

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

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