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Until They Sail

Year:

1958

Duration:

94 min

Genres:

Drama | Romance | War

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Robert Wise

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1958-02-27

Filming Locations: Cathedral Square, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Cast

Actor

Character

Patrick Macnee

Jean Simmons

Barbara Leslie Forbes

Joan Fontaine

Anne Leslie

Paul Newman

Capt. Jack Harding

Piper Laurie

Delia Leslie Friskett

Charles Drake

Capt. Richard Bates

Sandra Dee

Evelyn Leslie

Wally Cassell

Phil Friskett aka Shiner

Alan Napier

Prosecution Attorney

Ralph Votrian

Max Murphy

John Wilder

Tommy

Tige Andrews

US Marine, Store Customer

Adam Kennedy

Andy, Delia's Lover

Mickey Shaughnessy

US Marine, Store Customer

Nicky Blair

US Marine (uncredited)

William Boyett

US Marine (uncredited)

Pat Colby

US Marine (uncredited)

Jim Cox

US Marine (uncredited)

James Douglas

US Marine (uncredited)

Phyllis Douglas

Local Girl (uncredited)

Don Eitner

US Marine (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Man Smoking Outside Courtroom (uncredited)

Stanley Fraser

Court Crier (uncredited)

Jimmy Hayes

US Marine (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes

Townsman (uncredited)

Dee Humphrey

Local Girl (uncredited)

Kendrick Huxham

Judge (uncredited)

Dean Jones

US Marine Lt (uncredited)

Morgan Jones

US Marine (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp

Barrister Leaving Courtroom (uncredited)

Robert Keys

Maj. Campbell (uncredited)

Alma Lauton

Local Girl (uncredited)

Pamela Light

Local Girl (uncredited)

Tom Mayton

US Marine (uncredited)

Roger McGee

US Marine (uncredited)

Vesey O'Davoren

Reverend, Delia's Wedding (uncredited)

Pat O'Hara

Policeman (uncredited)

Hilda Plowright

Woman (uncredited)

Doris Riter

Local Girl (uncredited)

John Rosser

US Marine (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

Townsman (uncredited)

David Thursby

Trainman (uncredited)

James Todd

Attorney (uncredited)

Anne Wakefield

Mrs. Campbell (uncredited)

Patrick Waltz

US Marine (uncredited)

Ben Wright

Defense Attorney (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Sandra Dee's Debut.

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Aspen Pictures, owned by Mark Robson and Robert Wise, bought two stories from James A. Michener's anthology "Return to Paradise." After Robson filmed one of the stories as "Return to Paradise" with Gary Cooper, they ran out of funding and had to sell the rights to the other story, "Until They Sail" to Burt Lancaster. Some years later the it ended up with Charles Schnee at MGM. By then Wise was at Metro and requested to film the property.

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Goofs

At the start of the film, set in 1939, the four sisters put up a map of the world to keep track of the soldiers' locations, but the map is contemporary from the year the film was made (1957), showing numerous nations that did not exist in 1939, for example: Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (which would have been French Indochina in 1939), Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies), Thailand (called Siam in 1939), and Pakistan (which was part of British India), among other countries.

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The movie takes place in New Zealand. Toward the end of the movie, one of the sisters and her son are flying away. The registration on the aircraft is SU-AAC. "SU" is the registration letters for aircraft certified in Egypt.

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Quotes

Barbara Leslie Forbes: [Last lines] If my father could read the history of his daughters...

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Faq

Is "Until They Sail" based on a book?

Until They Sail is based on a short story from Return to Paradise, a 1950 anthology by American author James Michener [1907-1997]. The story was adapted for the movie by American screenwriter Robert Anderson.

A Note Regarding Spoilers

The following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags have been used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.

What is 'Until They Sail' about?

Until They Sail focuses on the lives of the four Leslie sisters -- Barbara (Jean Simmons), Anne (Joan Fontaine), Delia (Piper Laurie), and Evelyn (Sandra Dee) -- in WWII New Zealand. Anne becomes engaged to Marine Captain Richard Bates (Charles Drake). Delia wishes to divorce her prisoner-of-war husband Phil "Shiner" Friskett (Wally Cassell) and takes up with a string of American soldiers. Barbara's husband Mark is in North Africa and, although she loves him, she finds herself attracted to Captain Jack Harding (Paul Newman), an American soldier whose job it is to investigate New Zealand women who are engaged to American soldiers.

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