Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
- Directed by
- John Huston
- Genre
- drama film, action film, war film, romance film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- e 12
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 141 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A nun and a Marine are stranded together on a Pacific island during World War II. They must survive while hiding from the Japanese troops who control the island.
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What happens
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 American CinemaScope war film released by Twentieth Century-Fox starring Deborah Kerr as an Irish nun and Robert Mitchum as a U.S. Marine, both stranded on a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Directed by John Huston, it was adapted by Huston and John Lee Mahin from the 1952 novel by Charles Shaw. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Deborah Kerr) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The movie was filmed in Trinidad and Tobago in what was then the British West Indies. Producer Eugene Frenke later filmed The Nun and the Sergeant, a low-budget variation on the story, (1962), starring his wife Anna Sten. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Under Fire (1957)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.