What to Watch this Weekend: HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON

Here is a suggestion for Hollywood- how about remaking a movie from over fifty years ago that is excellent, an engaging story and well funny, instead of regurgitating a remake of a super hero made less then a decade ago? How about a real hero, how about a US Marine, who gets stranded on a island in the Pacific, with the Japanese swarming and well........ a nun?

 

I have a confession... Robert Mitchum is not my first go to actor from the golden age of big studio run Hollywood. He usually played it rough and brash, a little too bit brash for my preferences of smooth- Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck smooth. 

 

But he did...

 

before they did...

 

and a few other well known movies like EL DORADO, not this one...

 

but this one...

Of course Debra Kerr...

 

 

can do sexy just fine as in the epic and original FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, with Burt Lancaster. But in HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON she plays a nun to Mitchum's Marine...

 

 

 

Who form a sweet enduring bond, even though Mitchum does declare, "Now what is the point of you being a nun, if we are all alone?"

 

 

HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON has action, suspense, romance, good dialogue and isn't as predictable and flat as some of the offerings at the theater these days and since "heaven knows" when Hollywood will start making good movies again, I recommend watching it this weekend, cause how can the scenario of a marine and a nun stranded on a deserted island not be a fun watch.

 

HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON is available on Amazon instant download and by DVD.