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The Perfect Furlough is a 1958 romantic service comedy directed by Blake Edwards and written by Stanley Shapiro . Edwards and Shapiro would re - team the following year for another Tony Curtis service comedy , Operation Petticoat . ___MASK33___ is a trade name used by Eastman Kodak for a number of related film and processing technologies associated with ___MASK46___ motion picture production . Operation Petticoat is a 1959 American World War II submarine comedy film in ___MASK33___ from Universal - International , produced by Robert Arthur , directed by Blake Edwards , that stars Cary Grant and Tony Curtis . Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor . These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect . Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( ___MASK30___ comedy being an exception ). One of the oldest genres in film , some of the very first silent movies were comedies , as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions , without requiring sound . When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s , comedy films took another swing , as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue .