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Running time 106 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $2,905,000 Box office $4.2 million (US) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957, a film which tells the story of two people stranded on a Japanese-occupied island in the during. The movie was adapted by and from the novel by and directed by Huston. It was nominated for for (Deborah Kerr). The movie was filmed on the islands of. Producer Eugene Frenke later filmed a low-budget variation on the story, (1962), starring Frenke's wife.
Contents. Plot In the in 1944, Allison and his reconnaissance party had been in the process of disembarking from a submarine when they were discovered and fired upon by the. The submarine's captain was forced to dive and leave the scouting team behind.
Allison got to a rubber raft and after days adrift, reaches an island. He finds an abandoned settlement and a chapel with one occupant: Sister Angela , a novice who has not yet taken her final vows. She herself has been on the island for only four days; she came with an elderly priest to evacuate another clergyman, only to find the Japanese had arrived first. The frightened natives who had brought them to the island left the pair without warning, and the priest died soon after. With in a scene from the film For a while, they have the island to themselves, but then a detachment of Japanese troops arrives to set up a meteorological camp, forcing them to hide in a cave. When Sister Angela is unable to stomach the raw fish Allison has caught, he sneaks into the Japanese camp for supplies, narrowly avoiding detection.
That night, they watch flashes from naval guns being fired in a sea battle over the horizon. The Japanese unexpectedly leave the island, and in both celebration and frustration, Allison gets drunk on.
He blurts out that he loves Sister Angela and considers her devotion to her vows to be pointless, since they are stuck on the island 'like.' She runs out into a tropical rain and falls ill as a result; Allison, now sober and contrite, finds her shivering.
He carries her back, but the Japanese have returned, forcing them to retreat to the cave. Allison sneaks into the Japanese camp to get blankets. He kills a soldier who discovers him, alerting the enemy. To force him into the open, the Japanese set fire to the vegetation. When a Japanese soldier discovers the cave, Allison and Sister Angela have two choices: surrender or die from a thrown inside. An ensuing explosion is not a grenade, but a bomb; the Americans have begun attacking the island in preparation for a. Allison comments that the landing will not be an easy one because when they returned, the Japanese brought with them four whose positions are well-concealed.
Jun 21, 2014 - A Blu-ray review by Glenn Erickson (DVD Savant) of the film Heaven Knows, Mr.
In what he attributes to a message from God, Allison disables the artillery during the barrage that will precede the American assault, while the Japanese are still in their bunkers. He is wounded, but sabotages all the guns by removing their, saving many American lives. After the landing, the Marine officers are puzzled by the missing breechblocks. Allison and Sister Angela say their goodbyes.
Allison has reconciled himself to Sister Angela's dedication to Christ, though she reassures him that they will always be close 'companions'. After being found, Marines transfer Allison to the ship, with Sister Angela walking beside him.
Production Filming took place in allowing Huston and Fox to use blocked funds in the UK, receive British film finance and qualify for the. The film was set later in the war than the novel that had Allison escaping from the. In the film, the Allies are on the offensive and U.S. Marines capture the island. The screenplay compares the rituals and commitment of the and the. The monitored the production of the film closely, sending a representative to watch the filming; knowing this, Kerr and Mitchum deliberately ad-libbed a scene (not included in the final print), in which their characters wildly kissed and grabbed at each other.
The Marines provided troops for the invasion climax. Six Japanese living in played some of the leading characters, while from the laundries and restaurants of Trinidad and Tobago filled out the rest of the Japanese soldiers. Screen Archives Entertainment released Heaven Knows, Mr.
Allison on Blu-ray on June 10, 2014. See also. References. Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series).
Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. P250. 'Top Grosses of 1957', Variety, 8 January 1958: 30. ^ Server, Lee Baby, I Don't Care 2002 St Martin's Griffin.
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