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Until They Sail is a 1957 American black-and-white CinemaScope drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, and Sandra Dee.
Until They Sail: Directed by Robert Wise. With Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie. During WWII, unmarried New Zealand women meet and marry American soldiers who are fighting in the Pacific theater.
Robert Anderson. Screenplay. James Michener. Story. Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Based on a story by James Michener, Until They Sail follows the lives of four New Zealand sisters during World War II, and shows how they are affected by the arrival of the U.S. military. Newman plays a cynical, hard-drinking marine who falls in love with one of the sisters, a widow, played by Jean Simmons.
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When the United States sends several hundred Marines to Christchurch after the attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941, many of the men brashly flirt with the lonely New Zealand women. Naive, 14-year-old Evelyn cannot resist inviting kind Capt. Richard G. Bates ( Charles Drake) to dinner.
