MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Down 2,297 this week

Until They Sail (1957)

APPROVED 94 min  -  Drama | Romance | War  -   27 February 1958 (Australia)
6.2
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 6.2/10 from 542 users  
Reviews: 25 user | 3 critic

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII

Director:

Robert Wise

Writers:

Robert Anderson (screenplay), James Michener (story)
 Loading+Watchlist

Watch it

Buy it from Amazon »

Related Lists

image of title
a list of 1,058 titles by abcj-2 created 6 months ago
 
image of title
a list of 1,194 titles by Marcel Scharnewski created 28 Mar 2011
 
image of title
a list of 727 titles by samratnigam created 24 May 2011
 
image of title
a list of 191 titles by abcj-2 created 24 May 2011
 
image of title
a list of 31 titles by logandarko created 20 Mar 2011
 

Connect with IMDb


Pre-Order the Kindle Fire
Edit

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Jean Simmons ...
Barbara Leslie Forbes
Joan Fontaine ...
Anne Leslie
Paul Newman ...
Capt. Jack Harding
Piper Laurie ...
Delia Leslie Friskett
Charles Drake Charles Drake ...
Capt. Richard Bates
Sandra Dee ...
Evelyn Leslie
Wally Cassell Wally Cassell ...
Phil Friskett aka Shiner
Alan Napier Alan Napier ...
Prosecution Attorney
Ralph Votrian Ralph Votrian ...
Max Murphy
John Wilder John Wilder ...
Tommy
Tige Andrews Tige Andrews ...
US Marine, Store Customer
Adam Kennedy Adam Kennedy ...
Andy, Delia's Lover
Mickey Shaughnessy Mickey Shaughnessy ...
US Marine, Store Customer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Patrick Macnee ...
Pvt. Duff (scenes deleted)
Edit

Storyline

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII Written by johnno.r@xtra.co.nz  

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | Alcohol | Beautiful Woman | World War Two | Murder  | See more »

Taglines:

They Couldn't Have The Love They Wanted, So They Took The Love They Could Get!

Genres:

Drama | Romance | War

Edit

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

(Australia) See more »

Also Known As:

Ask kurbani See more »

Filming Locations:

New Zealand

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See more »
Show detailed company contact information on IMDbPro »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System) | Perspecta Stereo  | 4-Track Stereo

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
See full technical specs »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sandra Dee's Debut. See more »

Goofs

Anachronisms: 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. See more »

Quotes

Barbara Leslie Forbes: [Last lines] If my father could read the history of his daughters...
Capt. Jack Harding: He'd understand.
Barbara Leslie Forbes: As they say, to understand is to forgive. Or is it, to understand is not to forgive? I can never remember.
See more »

Connections

References Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) See more »

Soundtracks

"Until They Sail"
Music by David Raksin
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Sung by Eydie Gormé See more »