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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543072096
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 6870
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: November 07, 1957
Editorial Review:
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,
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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - 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.
Rating:  - 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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