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The Hasty Heart

  • 1949
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  • 1h 42m
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Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, and Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
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In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers ... Read allIn the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.

  • Director
    • Vincent Sherman
  • Writers
    • Ranald MacDougall
    • John Patrick
  • Stars
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Patricia Neal
    • Richard Todd
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    1.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Vincent Sherman
    • Writers
      • Ranald MacDougall
      • John Patrick
    • Stars
      • Ronald Reagan
      • Patricia Neal
      • Richard Todd
    • 30User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 5 wins & 3 nominations total

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    Patricia Neal, Anthony Nicholls, and Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
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    Ronald Reagan and Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
    Patricia Neal and Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
    Ronald Reagan in The Hasty Heart (1949)
    Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
    Patricia Neal and Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
    Ronald Reagan, Howard Marion-Crawford, Orlando Martins, Ralph Michael, Patricia Neal, and John Sherman in The Hasty Heart (1949)
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    Patricia Neal and Richard Todd in The Hasty Heart (1949)
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    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    • Yank
    Patricia Neal
    Patricia Neal
    • Sister Parker
    Richard Todd
    Richard Todd
    • Lachie
    Anthony Nicholls
    Anthony Nicholls
    • Lt. Col. Dunn
    Howard Marion-Crawford
    Howard Marion-Crawford
    • Tommy
    • (as Howard Crawford)
    Ralph Michael
    • Kiwi
    John Sherman
    • Digger
    Alfie Bass
    Alfie Bass
    • Orderly
    • (as Alfred Bass)
    Orlando Martins
    Orlando Martins
    • Blossom
    Robert Douglas
    Robert Douglas
    • Off-Screen Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Clive Dunn
    Clive Dunn
    • MacDougall
    • (uncredited)
    John Gregson
    John Gregson
    • Raw Recruit in Jungle
    • (uncredited)
    Sam Kydd
    • Driver
    • (uncredited)
    Pamela van Dale
    • Burmese Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Ben Williams
    • Clerk at Hospital
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Vincent Sherman
    • Writers
      • Ranald MacDougall
      • John Patrick
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    • Trivia
      When Lachie asks Yank what he's going to do after the war, Yank replies that he's going back to "...a little place on the Rock River, Dixon, Illinois." This is actor Ronald Reagan's actual boyhood home.
    • Quotes

      Sister Parker: He's a foundling, his father left his mother before he was born. Do you know what that means?

      Yank: He sure is!

    • Connections
      Featured in Elstree Story (1952)

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    9/10
    Going Through Life Without Friends
    The Hasty Heart is the second best known work of author John Patrick, his biggest triumph being The Teahouse of the August Moon. It ran on Broadway from early to middle 1945 while there was still very much a war going on in the China-Burma-India Theater for 204 performances. It starred Richard Basehart, Anne Burr and John Lund on stage.

    Those same roles were taken by Richard Todd, Patricia Neal, and Ronald Reagan in the screen adaption directed by Vincent Sherman. About the only change that was made was a brief prologue showing exactly how Richard Todd got his injuries. After that the entire film is set in a hospital along the Assam front in that theater.

    The Hasty Heart is a story about the wounded Richard Todd who doesn't know that while seemingly recovered he lost a kidney and the other one is irreversibly damaged. He will die within a matter of weeks and nurse Patricia Neal moves him in with some other convalescent soldiers including an American, Ronald Reagan and tells them to be easy with him.

    Easier said than done because Todd's a really hard case. He's a bitter angry man, a foundling with no family or friends to speak of which is why they aren't writing him his ticket back home, he's got no one to go back home to.

    Richard Todd got his first notice in The Hasty Heart with the American public and during the Fifties he made as many films on this side of the pond as in the United Kingdom. Todd was a real life war hero so in playing this part he brought a wealth of bitter experience among dying men. Todd got an Oscar nomination for Best Actor and his competition included, John Wayne for Sands of Iwo Jima, Kirk Douglas for Champion, and Gregory Peck for Twelve O'Clock High. The eventual winner though was Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men.

    Patricia Neal as a young contract player with Warner Brothers also got her first really good part as the compassionate nurse. And a veteran contract player with Warner Brothers who left the movies for another career, Ronald Reagan got some of the best notices of his career. The Hasty Heart is definitely one of the three films most identified with him in a good way, the others being Knute Rockne - All American, and King's Row.

    The Hasty Heart is a fine film about the tragedy of war and the worst tragedy of going through life without friends. Make sure to catch it if it's ever broadcast on TCM.
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    • Release date
      • December 2, 1949 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hasty Heart
    • Filming locations
      • Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK(studio: made at Elstree Studios, London, England.)
    • Production companies
      • Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC)
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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