Delight war comedy,easy to watch and hard to forget,a bright constellation of stars,Grant as Captain every time try put out the fire,Curtis continues set on fire,all five woman are the main reason for so many confusion on board,each one them had a special moments along the picture in the particular way a clumsy and sexy Joan O'Brien and the chemistry between O'Connell and Virginia Gregg,a everlasting funny moments with all casting,a movie to be discovery for new ones!!! Resume: First watch: 2007 / How many: 3 / Source: Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5

I must admit there are a few chuckles and a few minor thrills in this labored farce. It takes a long time for the promise inherent in the title to get under way. And when the girls finally appear, it is mostly all good clean fun. In fact, just as much footage is devoted to other comic interludes, such as Curtis scrounging supplies at the casino/supply depot, as to the predictable situations that develop when women are forced to live in cramped quarters. Needless to say, these constricted quarters have allowed the movie to be filmed very economically. Long dialogue scenes can now take place in tiny, economy-sized sets that even Monogram would have been ashamed of. True, there is some welcome exterior filming with real subs and ships that were kindly provided free of charge by the Department of Defense. As might be expected, director Blake Edwards has handled this routine assignment in a totally pedestrian style. He just plonked the actor in front of the camera and said, "Action!". And as for the flat, characterless photography, Russell Harlan hang your head in shame! Cary Grant does little more that just say his lines, allowing Tony Curtis to work all out to exploit his own limited charm/talent. The rest of the players are strictly from hunger. Thanks to an aggressive promotion, this movie was enormously successful at the box=office. Back in 1959, there was an enormous appetite out there for films that promised a raciness that they actually failed to deliver. People just couldn't get it through their heads that no movies could be released without the concurrence of the Roman Catholic church, and racy films were most definitely "Out!"

A sometimes funny, sometimes serious account of a damaged sub and its ragtag crew as they wend their way through the perilous waters of World War II. Cary Grant is the sub commander and Tony Curtis is a less than honest lieutenant who is great at stealing stuff needed on the sub. Along the way, the crew rescues several Army nurses, who make life aboard the sub difficult, to put it mildly. Lots of familiar faces pop up in the cast, including Gavin "Love Boat" MacLeod, Gene Evans, Virginia Gregg, Dick "Bewitched" Sargent, Marion "Happy Days" Ross, Arthur O'Connell and Dina Merrill. Beautifully photographed and nicely directed by a very young Blake Edwards, although the antics are on the mild side, which is what comes of having the Navy's cooperation. Interestingly, Grant was not the first choice for his part. Jeff Chandler, whose star was on the rise in the 1950s, was. The film was essentially remade 37 years later with Kelsey Grammar in the Grant role. It was called "Down Periscope."

We all live in a pink submarine, a pink submarine...The Beatles song about a yellow submarine is more entertaining than this lame comedy. There are zero laughs until the women get on board about a third of the way through the film and after that there are a few chuckles here and there. Grant and Curtis seem to be trying but they get no help from the script or from Edwards, directing one of his earliest films. It is fun trying to pick out future TV stars like Dick Sargent, Gavin McLeod, and Marion Ross. In fact, an episode of "Bewitched," "Mary Tyler Moore Show," or "Happy Days" has a lot more laughs than this film, which goes on way too long at two hours.