Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) is a John Huston war drama you can watch online on iFILM. A tough US Marine and a Catholic nun wash up on a tiny Pacific atoll — and the island is held by the Japanese.

Corporal Allison (Robert Mitchum) and Sister Angela (Deborah Kerr) shelter in a cave, scavenge for food and dodge enemy patrols. Forced to depend on each other, they form a bond that neither the war nor her vows will allow. He drinks; she prays. Between them sits a feeling with nowhere to go.

Huston stages almost the whole film as a two-hander, trading combat for the tension of glances and things left unsaid. Kerr earned an Oscar nomination as the nun. Stream Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison online on iFILM.