Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
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Directed by	John Huston
Screenplay by	John Huston John Lee Mahin
Based on	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison by Charles Shaw
Produced by	Buddy Adler Eugene Frenke
Starring	Deborah Kerr Robert Mitchum
Cinematography	Oswald Morris
Edited by	Russell Lloyd
Music by	Georges Auric
Color process	Color by DeLuxe
Production company	20th Century-Fox
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	March 13, 1957 (1957-03-13)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Japanese
Budget	$2,905,000[1]
Box office	$4.2 million (US)[2]

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 American CinemaScope war film directed by John Huston. It stars Deborah Kerr as an Irish nun and Robert Mitchum as a U.S. Marine, both stranded on a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

The film was adapted by John Huston and John Lee Mahin from the 1952 novel by Charles Shaw and was directed by Huston. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Deborah Kerr) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

The movie was filmed on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago in what was then the British West Indies. Producer Eugene Frenke later filmed The Nun and the Sergeant, a low-budget variation on the story, (1962), starring his wife Anna Sten.^[3]