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Until They Sail (1957)
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27 February 1958 (Australia) moreTagline:
They Couldn't Have The Love They Wanted, So They Took The Love They Could Get!Plot:
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII more | full synopsisNewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Playwright Anderson Dies (From WENN. 10 February 2009, 4:00 AM, PST)
Actress Sandra Dee Dies at 62
(From IMDb News. 21 February 2005)
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An early indication of what Piper Laurie could do moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| 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 | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Patrick Macnee | ... | Pvt. Duff (scenes deleted) | |
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2.35 : 1 moreFilming Locations:
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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. moreSoundtrack:
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For a "woman's picture," "Until They Sail" is surprisingly effective. The acting is generally first-rate, but Piper Laurie is a stand-out. This was possibly the first time she was able to overcome that silly flower-eating publicity gimmick that Universal foisted on her and then proceeded to condemn her to swashbucklers and other junk while she was under contract to them. It's too bad that she couldn't have started with a studio that would have known what to do with her and was interested in filming more than mindless fluff.
Jean Simmons was also great in a somewhat rare opportunity at a role with some depth--anyone remember most of the dreck she miraculously survived in her RKO period?
Even Joan Fontaine was less arch than she usually was in her later films (even the shark was better in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea").