Yes, with Yul Brynner.
I love that movie!
Posted on 09/21/2024 3:51:29 PM PDT by Twotone
When John Huston's crew arrived on the island of Tobago in September of 1956 to begin filming his new picture, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, 20th Century Fox were hoping that it would repeat the massive success of The African Queen – another story about a mismatched couple stranded in the wilderness, pitted against a well-armed enemy in a backwater of a global war.
It was a war picture, but a decade since World War Two had ended these had gone from propaganda pictures (Bataan, Destination Tokyo) to gritty dramas full of battle scenes (Battleground, 12 O'Clock High) to adventure pictures with a wartime setting (The Desert Rats, The Colditz Story) to whatever Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison was supposed to be. Like The Caine Mutiny or The Man Who Never Was, it was a drama whose stakes were raised by wartime, but more about characters than victory in any campaign or the success of any mission.
And at a time when you could count on your audience containing at least a few veterans of the last war, it was the sort of serious picture a generation who had lived through that war wanted to see and show to their families. And it was the kind of film that won Oscars – like The Bridge on the River Kwai, released the same year as Huston's film. Its star, Robert Mitchum was making his bread and butter appearing in war films like The Enemy Below, The Hunters, The Angry Hills and The Longest Day over the next five years.
The film begins, after telling us that it's 1944 and that we're "somewhere in the South Pacific", with Mitchum, alone and adrift on a rubber raft, being slowly washed ashore on an isolated island.
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Haven’t seen it in 60 years.
Spare me
It will remind you of how good movies used to be, with natural movie techniques and scenery.
And no accursed CGI
I can’t remember if I’ve been arrested for vagrancy, I know they used to use it a lot and if there was an issue or resistance when they told you to move along, then they would take you in.
Yes
He’s absolutely creepy in that one!
“The WW II generation did not elect FDR for his first 2 terms.
Who elected Wilson the first socialist president?
The US was on the socialist road well before the WW II generation could vote.”
Agreed. Wilson got elected because Teddy Roosevelt ran against the Republican candidate Taft. They split the Republican vote and Wilson got in. It would have been better had Taft been re-elected.
People don’t know that the protestant vote went against FDR in his last two elections.
“Hey Marine, got a cigarette?”
“”Deborah Kerr was a really pretty lady, my favorite film of hers is Black Narcissus.””
Mine is “The King and I.” I could watch that dance and music for hours! Saw it on stage in Hollywood years ago at Grauman’s Chinese Theater - Yul Brynner yes, but not Deborah Kerr.... Many ovations and my eyes were so filled with tears, I couldn’t see him on stage...
Vaguely remember that and “Home from the Hill.”
Well aware, need no reminders.
Yes, with Yul Brynner.
I love that movie!
I found it to be a great flick. Not a 10, but an easy 9.
The WW II generation had its share of cowards, screwups, and shirkers, while Baby Boomers have its share of heroes and tough men (think Vietnam Vets).
My favorite movie of all time is “Out of the Past”. Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas, with Jane Greer playing good girl/bad girl.
Lillian Gish was a Republican, too.
One of my favorite scenes from that movie was when Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish were singing Leaning on the everlasting arms. Mitchum had quite a good singing voice.
https://youtu.be/5LBncL0Dpo4?si=WPqrzcrhy79j2kpN
Had forgotten that one, definitely another contender.
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