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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.
In 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the New Zealand city of Christchurch is visited by hundreds of U.S. Marines -- a welcome sight for the lonely women there.
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Four sisters in New Zealand fall for Allied sailors en route to World War II but can only have them. New York actor Paul Newman had arrived in Hollywood with a Warner Brothers contract, and had promptly bombed in his first film, a ludicrous biblical epic, (1954).
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.
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