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Directed by John Huston, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison stars Robert Mitchum as a World War II Marine sergeant and Deborah Kerr as a Roman Catholic nun. Both nun and sergeant are marooned on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. Sergeant Allison does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. Sister Angela is equally fond of ...
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 CinemaScope film which tells the story of two people stranded on a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The movie was adapted by John Huston and John Lee Mahin from the novel by Charles Shaw and directed by Huston.
It is an OK novel. There is no obscene language. It is interesting in that some of the language attributed to Mr. Allison, a United States Marine, does not sound like that of an American enlisted man. (i.e. "Blast" the weather.) Overall, I would rate the novel as average and, if not for the movie, forgettable. Heaven Knows Mr. Allison is a fine ...
Jun 9, 2014 · June 9, 2014. John Huston’s Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is flat and distanced. You sense very gifted people attempting to do an honorable job with hokum, and while you respect those ambitions, it’s possible that a zestier film might’ve sprung from a cruder approach. “Zesty” is a word that can be confidently applied to many of Huston’s ...
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Behind the misleading title is an intriguing yarn [from the novel by Charles Shaw] about two people on opposite ends of the social ladder, thrown together in a highly ...
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 American CinemaScope war film that tells the story of two people stranded on a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. The film was adapted by John Huston and John Lee Mahin from the 1952 novel by Charles Shaw and was directed by Huston. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best ...
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) 1957 United Kingdom, USA Directed by John Huston Produced by Buddy Adler, Eugene Frenke Written by John Lee Mahin, John Huston Featuring
