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Sometime in 1944 a half-dead marine in a rubber raft washed ashore on a beautiful South Pacific island inhabited by a beautiful nun. Mr. Allison and Sister Angela spend most of their time alone on the island learning how incompatible their words are, but what a wholesome friendship two brave souls in danger can discover...
...nun shatters the marine's dreams of spending their lives alone together, "at least until the war ends," in classic insular-paradise fashion by assuring him that, although she hasn't yet taken her final vows, her heart is already given to Christ. But "Allison's luck" in being marooned with a good-looking nun dents his ego only momentarily, for Japs shell the island and land off and on, and the emotional stalemate is overshadowed by a hide-and-seek fight for their lives, which takes all of Mr. Allison's frustrated energies...
Because the nun must maintain her faith and above all her chastity, and the Marine, relinquish his love for her, pure or normal as it is, the film's value is reduced to a light, often humorous level. Drama gives way to scenes of Platonic tenderness and dedication between the two. These are sensitively enough handled so that while Sister Anglea undergoes only brief moments of temptation and inner turmoil, and Mr. Allison takes his fate quickly in stride, this story of a Marine and a nun on a lush Pacific island is a first-rate fairy-tale...
...sweat and beard, rolls over the side of a rubber life raft, staggers through the surf to a palm-fringed island and proceeds, with the hearty cooperation of the sound track, to slurp up several gallons of the nearest fresh-water lagoon. The next thing he sees is a nun, and for all the surprise he shows, the audience might think that nuns just sort of naturally came with tropical islands. But Deborah is dramatically startled to see him. "Naow, le's jus' take it easy, ma'am," says Mitchum in that half-asleep Mitchum...
Huston soon puts a stop to this sort of fiddle-faddle. All at once enemy troops arrive, and the nun and the marine are forced to take refuge in a tiny cave. To make things more explicit, the nun comes down with a fever, and the marine is forced to undress her and wrap her in warm blankets. Having landed, he now seems to have the situation well in hand...