Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 25, 1957

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (20th Century-Fox).

Given: a young nun and a young marine marooned together on a South Pacific island. To prove: that the public is willing to watch yet one more theological stripteaseĀ—the cinemactic kind in which the moviegoer is encouraged to sit for about two hours in the dark with a faintly lewd leer on his face, and yet at the last minute is permitted to walk out of the theater wearing a pious smirk. The problem could hardly have been muffed by the dumbest director, but for some reason it...

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