Until They Sail (1957)
- Starring:
- Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, (more)
- Director(s):
- Robert Wise
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR
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Adapted by Robert Anderson from a story by James A. Michener, the Robert Wise-directed soaper Until They Sail is set in World-War-II New Zealand. Paul Newman plays been-there-done-that U.S. marine captain Jack Harding, assigned to investigate servicemen's requests to marry local girls. An unemotional cipher, Harding begins to warm up when he meets war widow Barbara Leslie Forbes (Jean Simmons), a woman with three sisters (played by Joan Fontaine, Piper Laurie, and Sandra Dee -- what a gene pool!). The Newman-Simmons relationship is played against the romance between uptight spinster Anne Leslie (Fontaine) and good-natured officer Richard Bates (Charles Drake), and the dysfunctional marriage between the emotionally desperate (and nymphomaniacal) Delia Leslie (Laurie) and slimy Shiner Friskett (Wally Cassell), who is off in battle. The fourth sister, Evelyn (Dee), watches her sisters' amorous pursuits longingly, her mind occupied by her own true love, who is off to war. Until They Sail was a copacetic reunion between star Newman and director Robert Wise, who'd previously collaborated in Somebody Up There Likes Me. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Jean Simmons - Barbara Leslie Forbes
- Paul Newman - Capt. Jack Harding
- Charles Drake - Capt. Richard Bates
- Wally Cassell - Phil "Shiner" Friskett
- Ralph Votrian - Max Murphy
- Tige Andrews - US Marine
- Mickey Shaughnessy - US Marine
- James Douglas - Marine with Girl
- Robert Keys - Maj. Campbell
- Pat O'Hara - Policeman
- Morgan Jones - US Marine
- Pamela Light
- Phyllis Douglas - New Zealand Girl
- Ben Wright - Defense
- Anne Wakefield - Mrs. Campbell
- Hilda Plowright - Woman
- Patrick Macnee - Private Duff
- Nicky Blair - US Marine
- Joan Fontaine - Anne Leslie
- Piper Laurie - Delia Leslie
- Sandra Dee - Evelyn Leslie
- Alan Napier - Prosecution
- John Wilder - Tommy
- Adam Kennedy - Lt. Andy
- Jim Cox - Marine
- Jimmy Hayes - US Marine
- Roger McGee - US Marine
- James Todd - Attorney
- John Rosser
- Stanley Fraser - Court Crier
- Don Eitner
- Patrick Waltz
- David Thursby - Trainman
- Vesey O'Davoren - Reverend
- Kendrick Huxham - Judge
- William Boyett - US Marine
- Director(s):
- Robert Wise
- Writer(s):
- Robert Anderson
- Producer(s):
- Charles Schnee
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- NR(Questionable for Children)
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