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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | John Huston |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 07 November, 1957 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Fox Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action, Action / Adventure, Adventure, Feature Film-drama, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543072096 |
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Customer Reviews of Heaven Knows Mr. Allison
So a Nun and a Marine are stranded on a beautiful tropical island... This wasn't a play? A two hander between a shipwrecked Marine and an abandoned Nun, on a small island in the Pacific, in 1944....No? It was a book. Oh... <
>I got this to see Mitchum, after reading his biography, and must admit, though he and Kerr are good, the story doesn't flow very energetically, and the vitality of the situation is not maintained throughout. <
>The two of them hit it off well, and then must contend with two instances of Japanese occupation of the island. All the while they hide in a cave, he taking care of her, she never leaving or removing her long, billowing habit, white-though gradually stained and muddied. <
>The best parts are Mitchum's gentle, then rough come-ons, clearly the crank of the action. Perhaps because this was made in 1957, to present 1944, my sensibilities are less wholesome. But watching with my girlfriend, she too wanted more to happen. Kerr's "Ma'am" never stops calling Mitchum "Mr. Allison," he never finding out her name. Kerr's "Ma'am" also never gets to express her strength of faith against the bounding masculinity of Mitchum (surely one of the reasons he had the part), and there is no visceral dilemma for her, which I missed. <
>Perhaps this is a sadder piece then it seems. Will they ever know each other's love? Is he just an unlucky clunk, imprisoned and unrequited? Is their being thrown together by the horrors of war a cruel joke of the universe, bad timing and an expression of the futility of people? <
>Though dated, the acting is good-Mitchum does love sake, and Kerr is very subtle, it also gets the claustrophobia and vulnerability of the situation...But still doesn't compell...By the way, this was directed by "man's man" John Huston....
One of the greatest films of all time!
Noone who loves films can miss this movie and these performances by Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum. A nun and a marine together on an atol in the Pacific Ocean during a part of WWII sounds like a romance and a rejection, or a romance and she decides to leave her order. No such thing occurs; but what does occur is a love relationship that lasts forever, even thouigh...I won't spoil it.
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>The cinematography buy Oswald Morris is superb, John Huston directs, and he considered this is favorite film, way over The African Queen.
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>See this film and be filled with the timeless wonder of love between two people in a shadowy world they illumine for you.
Wrong movie
Just a word to the reviewer who thought the ending was cut . . . you got the wrong movie. The ending you described is the ending of the movie Sea Wife, a British film with Richard Burton and Joan Collins. It is very similar in that they are marooned at sea (with 2 others), and she is a nun. No one knows it,however, because she isn't dressed as a nun, and they all called each other by nicknames; hers is "Sea Wife." That aside, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allson is wonderful. I am asking for the DVD for Christmas. It is quite a different role for Robert Mitchum who shows a kind of "gentler side" in this. It is a very touching moment when Sister Angela says "You will be my dear companion always."
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