Heaven Knows Mr. Allison
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• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 07 November, 1957
DVD Release : 20 May, 2003 |
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Heaven Knows Mr. Allison description
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 |
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A rare gem
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When you make a movie with only 2 principal speaking parts it is as well to ensure that your lead performers are adroit enough to carry the picture and that the chemistry between them is strong .Both these factors are present and correvt in this quite splendid picture set on an island in the South Pacific during the Second World War.Robert Mitchcum is Corporal Allison ,a US Marine ,whose ship is sunk and who comes ashore on the island to discover he is not quite alone as also in residence is Sister Angela (Deborah Kerr).They make plans to esacpe on a raft but the Japanese move in and establish a weather base there ,forcing the pair to go in hiding in a cave .From time to time he must venture out to raid the Japanese camp for food and these scenes are very well handled by director John Huston.
The screenplay ,co-written by Huston and John Lee Martin is excellent and the editing by Russell Lloyd is fluid and inventive .Add some lush Technicolor photography from the ever reliable British lensman Oswald Morris and the technical aspects are in safe hands .What keeps this as a constant pleasure however is more than anything the interpaly between the two leading figures.Mitchum and Kerr worked well together a reflection of the great affection they held for each other away from the screen .(In separate interviews on a UK chat show -Parkinson -in the 1980's they spoke of each other with genuine unsimulated warmth)The scenes between them are tender and moving ,and shot through with a kind of sorrow for their love which while it is real must ever be platonic only
A war movie for people who dont really like war movies as the conflict is essentially backdrop for a human drama of some septh and style |
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