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The ''Sea Tiger'' set sail under strict order to avoid engaging any enemy craft - including lifeboats. Forced to drop anchor at Marinduque for still more repairs Mr. Holden goes ashore and discovers five stranded Army Nurses. A submarine isn't intended to be co-educational but obviously the women cannot be left where they are. Cue sexual tension between a predatory (and engaged) Lt. Holden and Lt. Duran; Captain Sherman and the buxom - and clumsy - Lt. Crandall; and the misogynistic Chief Masters Mate Tostin and Major Heywood.
Sherman intends to unload the nurses at Cebu but the Army Officer in Command refuses to take responsibility for them as he is expecting to be overrun and engage in guerilla operations, possibly for years. Nor can he help Sherman obtain the parts he needs as ''everything'' has been taken up into the hills. Lt. Holden comes up with a solution; he establishes a 'casino' up in the hills which accepts machine parts in exchange for chips leading Sherman to write that Mr. Holden is the only man he knows who will be awarded the Navy Cross at his
One of the items Holden obtains is lead paint for the submarine's undercoat. Unfortunately they have to mix red and white lead resulting in a bright ''pink'' submarine. They have regulation gray paint to go over it but predictably are forced to make a quick departure under fire before this can be done. They also have a dozen or so more passengers, the wives and children of the dealers at Mr. Holden's casino and a goat to provide milk for the children. Even better two of the women are in the last stages of pregnancy.
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* [[Armed Farces]]
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Most notably between Tostin and Heywood.
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{{quote|"I think we've been victims of Sherman's march to the sea."}}
* [[The Eeyore]]: Seaman Broom; 'You can't win, my friend...'
* [[Embarrassing Tattoo]]: Poor Seaman Hunkle, he's got a female nude
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Lt. Crandall, very much so.
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Lt. Holden becomes this after meeting Lt. Duran. Unfortunately he's engaged....
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[[Category:Films of the 1950s]]
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[[Category:Military and Warfare Films]]
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