79. "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" (1957)

World War II Movie Night does its 4th (!) movie starring Robert
Mitchum with 1957's "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison." During the War
in the Pacific, a U.S. Marine washes ashore a small island
improbably inhabited by a Nun (Deborah Kerr). The Japanese
periodically poke their heads around, but for the most part it's
just the Marine and the Nun, figuring out their new, shared
living situation. Made by the same director who did "The African
Queen," HKMA may be an attempt to do for WWII what that movie did
for WWI... Asides include the famous - and unexpectedly moving -
rivalry between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, and the time I
interviewed the most famous Nun. 


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