THE IRON PETTICOAT
(Romulus) G Cert. sh | LIKE to see people laughing in a cinema, but it is no easy job to provoke them that way," Ralph Thomas once said. He’s dead right. Even the audiences he enslaved with Doctor in the House won't, I think, find The Iron Petticoat all that funny. Scripted by Ben Hecht, it tries to explore the situa-tion-a Soviet Lass in a Western capi-tal-which made such a_ wonderful vehicle for Garbo in Ninotchka. I thought when I saw the Ninotchka revival that such a film couldn’t be made today, and here’s evidence for that view-point-the trial of the Soviet lass in the legation, for instance, As this lass, an aviator who has landed in Americanoccupied Germany, Katherine Hepburn puts up a brave show, reminding us here and there of the woman come late to romance that she was in Summer Madness; but for the most part there’s nothing much she can do about it. The only real, and infrequent, laughs I had were at Bob Hope as the American officer assigned to win her over to the West.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 926, 10 May 1957, Page 26
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183THE IRON PETTICOAT New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 926, 10 May 1957, Page 26
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