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Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (1957)

Director: John Huston

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From Time Out Film Guide

On the one hand, Huston's typically wry contribution to Hollywood's long-established, censor-baiting fascination with nuns. On the other, a quirky and superior reworking of his own The African Queen. Deborah Kerr, back in the habit ten years after Black Narcissus, is stranded on a Jap-held Pacific island with Marine corporal Mitchum, whose wonderfully low-key portrait of melting machismo is everything Bogart's respectably Oscar-chasing irascibility wasn't. The favourite film of its veteran screenwriter, John Lee Mahin.

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Cast & crew

Director: John Huston

Producer: Buddy Adler, Eugene Franks

Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum full cast

Duration: 105 mins


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