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The Iron Petticoat (Original title)Not for Money (Alternative title)
Dates: 1956 (Copyright), 17 September 1956 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Ralph Thomas

Synopsis: Comedy about the love between a U.S. officer and a Soviet woman pilot and triumph over others' suspicion.

Genres:
Comedy, Romance

Subject:
Politics
Releases
Date: 1956Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 89 mins Length: 8100 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (30)
©: Setafilm A.G., Production Company: Remus Films, Distribution controlled by: Independent Film Distributors Ltd., [Distribution in association with]: British Lion Films, Produced in association with: Harry Saltzman, Produced by: Betty E. Box, Production Manager: R. Denis Holt, Production Controller for Pinewood Studs: Arthur Alcott, Assistant Director: James H. Ware, Continuity: Joan Davis, Screenplay by: Ben Hecht, Director of Photography: Ernest Steward, Camera Operator: H.A.R. Thomson, [Stills]: Norman Gryspeerdt, [Portrait Stills]: Cornel Lucas, Editor: Frederick Wilson, Art Director: Carmen Dillon, Set Dresser: Vernon Dixon, Costume Supervisor: Yvonne Caffin, Make-up: W.T. Partleton, [Hairdressing]: Biddy Chrystal, Music Composed and Directed by: Benjamin Frankel, Sound Recording: John W. Mitchell, Gordon K. McCallum, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, [Sound Camera Operator]: Ron Butcher, [Boom Operator]: Danny Daniel, Sound Editor: Roger Cherrill, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (25)
Bob Hope (Chuck Lockwood), Katharine Hepburn (Vinka Kovelenko), Noelle Middleton (Connie), James Robertson Justice (Colonel Sklarnoff), Robert Helpmann (Ivan Kropotkin), David Kossoff (Dubratz), Alan Gifford (Colonel Tarbell), Nicholas Phipps (Tony Mallard), Paul Carpenter (Lewis), Sidney James (Paul), Alexander Gauge (senator), Sandra Dorne (Tityana), Richard Wattis (lingerie clerk), Tutte Lemkow (Sutsiyawa), Olaf Pooley (.), Martin Boddey (Grisha), Richard Leech, Eugene Deckers, Stanley Zevic, Alexis Chesnakov, Andre Mikhelson (.), Doris Goddard ([Maria]), Maria Antippas ([Sklarnoff's secretary]), Cyril Chamberlain ([hotel doorman]), Alf Dean ([Russian strongman])