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Noboru Yoshida (II) Heaven Knows Mr. Allison
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Fusamoto Takasimi, Noboru Yoshida (II) Directed By: John Huston Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Fox Home Entertainment Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 20, 2003 Running Time: 106 minutes Theatrical Release Date: November 07, 1957
Description: While hiding from a Japanese military offensive on a desolate Pacific Island, a marine sergeant (Mitchum) and his only fellow survivor, an Irish Roman Catholic novitiate on a humanitarian mission (Kerr), search for food, engage in philosophical sparring,
Amazon.com essential video: If a war movie can be lovely, this is it. John Huston directed this touching World War II story about a Marine (Robert Mitchum) stranded with a nun (Deborah Kerr) on a Pacific island overrun by Japanese. After initial antagonism, the resulting kinship between the two characters is human and civil, even after Mitchum's grunt understandably falls in love with his unlikely companion. The action scenes, in which the pair works together to stay ahead of the enemy, are first-rate. The actors have never been better, and Huston's perennial theme about destiny's denial of our dreams is achingly clear in this essentially two-person drama. --Tom Keogh
Great story! (Allison Crusoe and Angela Friday versus the Japanese) African Queen is one of my favorite movies ever, and Bogie and Hepburn as Charlie and Rosie were the best film couple ever. Here, Huston adapts the Allnut story to a Robinson Crusoe set up in WW2 in the South Pacific. Kerr can't quite carry Sister Angela to the level of Hepburn's Rosie; I mean, she does ok, but she was not in the same league as Hepburn. A Marine corporal, played as a nice, naive and brave simpleton by a mostly sober Mitchum, and a nun are stranded on an island 300 km N of Fiji during WW2. They got there separately, but now they are stuck together. While they get to know each other, and before they have time to try their project for escape by boat to Fiji, the Japanese come and occupy the island. They hide in a cave. The Japanese leave. They come out. They hope for US troups to come next, but the Japanese return. They hide again. US troups come at last and conquer the island. Allison has helped by incapacitating the Japanese guns. In the meantime the two people have some time to explore relationships, always within the limits of the 50s, i.e. with proper sense of decorum, and the underlying pressure only indicated in a vague way. Great story, great story telling, great film. Which leads me to the larger question: why is this film so fresh, like some others from the 40s and 50s, while so many later ones were already senile after a few years? Examples of later movies that I tried to watch again during the last few years and found awfully dated: Easy Rider (what a bore, apart from the glorious soundtrack of course), Last Tango in Paris (quelle betise), Lawrence of Arabia (Hollywood esthetics and colonialism, would have justified Said's Orientalism all by itself), The Wild Bunch (mindless boring violence). A worthy subject for further thought, though I know that some will be unhappy with my examples. One hypothesis: Huston managed to mix very clear and simple storytelling, almost minimalist, with the right balance of irony and pathos.
Best movie ever on an individual during WWII in the Pacific The movie is about a Marine washed ashore on an atol in the pacific. At the time it is inhabited by a nun who has been serving the islanders. Unfortunately their peace is short lived as Japanese invade the island and set up guns to destroy the US Naval forces that run between the atol and other islands. "Mr Allison" has no family and the Marine Corp has been his life. Unerringly he falls in love with the Nun who cannot return his love. Their adventures on the Japanese occuipied island are realistic especially hiding and living in a cave and almost fit the end of of a story written by John Bailey (Islands of Victory and Islands of Death) available through Amazon.com. I saw the movie when it first came out and never forgot it. It is one I wanted for my own personal small collection of great movies and great performances by actors.
Mike Bailey
Heavan Knows, Mr Allison This is one of my favorite movies - time is not an issue. It is about a nun stranded on an island that Japanese have been and left. Mr. Allison is Robert Mitchum, a marine, who washes ashore. They become friends and the Japanese come back. They hide in a cave with Mr. Allison looking for food at night. All turns out well and they part to go on their own path.
Excellent ..... I've always loved this movie and have been a fan of Robert Mitchum since I was a teen. This was a movie that was not in my collection and it's great to know that I can now watch it at any time.
Mr. Allison... A washed ashore marine and an abandoned nun are stranded on a remote island in the Pacific. Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr are great for each other in this movie. The marine becomes infatiated with the nun but then the island becames invaded by the Japanese. He has to become a hero to get them off the island!
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