Until They Sail [VHS]
by Robert Wise
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Actor: Charles Drake, Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper LaurieDirector: Robert Wise
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
Editor: Harold F. Kress
Producer: Charles Schnee
Producer: James E. Newcom
Writer: James Michener
Writer: Robert Anderson
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 94 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Studio: MGM (Warner)
VHS Movie Reviews of Until They Sail [VHS]
Movie Review: Where is the DVD edition?
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my all time favorite movies. How do we get someone to put out in DVD format?
Movie Review: Newman's move for the better...
Summary: 3 Stars
The film opens with Newman, as a military officer, testifying at a trial, which reminds one of "The Rack." Indeed the subject once more is the way people surrender their ideals and moral standards under the pressures of war... But here the emphasis is on women, and the story details the endless suffering and sacrifices of four sisters on the New Zealand Homefront during World War II...
Newman, an American marine, becomes involved with one of the sisters (Jean Simmons), whose husband has recently been killed in combat... It's hardly a smooth relationship: Simmons doesn't trust the GIs, who exploit and abuse the local women; Newman, who has been, in his words, "recently unmarried," has no faith in women or in romance... He is tough, unsociable, defensive, and trying to remain detached; and he uses his position as investigator of servicemen's prospective brides to advise men against marriage...
This is the first of Newman's genuine alcoholics... When Simmons first meets him, he's in a bar, preoccupied with his liquor, and later, when she asks him how he copes with life, he shows her a bottle and delivers what would become characteristic Newman lines: "This is what I spend the night with--and no regrets . . . And nobody gets hurt."
Gradually this confused and cynical man is unable to resist Simmons, who, he realizes, is the only woman he's ever really liked... He abandons what she calls his "hot affair with the bottle," although they seem to avoid a sexual relationship... Some melodramatic events threaten to keep them apart, but all ends happily in a huge CinemaScope closeup embrace...
Newman manages to mask his insecurities and neuroses... Instead of showing his usual aggressiveness with women, he becomes very dependent, seeing Simmons as almost a mother and letting her see his weaknesses... Most Newman characters are emotionally immature but they are rarely as open about it--rarely as overtly passive, dependent and adolescent...
Movie Review: Heartfelt human emotions
Summary: 5 Stars
Though filmed during a time when the moral codes prevented even the slightest hint of inpropriety, Until They Sail dealt with quite a scandalous subject: emotional and sexual relationships which sprung willy-nilly during the stressful times of war. The movie captures all aspects of wartime lonliness: youngest sister Evelyn's harmless puppy crushes, middle sister Dee's passionate sexual flings, big sister Anne's unexpected heartfelt first love, and Barbara's recovery as a young widow in the arms of ever-gorgeous Paul Newman. But what makes this movie so worth watching isn't just the diversity of the stories but the ability to capture the raw emotions and truth felt by the characters. In one poignant scene by a lake, Newman's character forwarns Simmons that he has no aspirations of love or marriage before surrendering himself to his lonliness. It's one of the most passionate and desperate scenes I've ever seen. The hunger spoken of previously is almost palpable. Movie Review: Marvelous nostalgia
Summary: 5 Stars
I've just finished watching Until They Sail and I just loved it. The lovely Jean Simmons is just right in her role, a New Zealand girl who ends up falling in love with American Paul Newman. They don't make movies like this anymore and, though some would say Thank Goodness, I miss the days where there was a moral code and even though many people didn't follow the rules, the code guided us nonetheless. Watch this wonderful film and escape into the past for a quick 90 minutes with some wonderful people.Movie Review: excellent film with "grown up" characters
Summary: 5 Stars
I too think this is an excellent film, I recently rewatched it on TCM. I wish some company would put out a dvd of it. Meeting in Australia during World War II, the gorgeous Jean Simmons and charismatic Paul Newman have a very grown up, slow starting romance, full of wary sadness. Joan Fontaine is effective as the judgmental sister who eventually melts. Sandra Dee is indeed charming in an early role. And Piper Laurie is excellent and a little scary as the "promiscuous," troubled sister. One reason it's so first-rate is the screenplay is by Robert Anderson, the talented writer of the play "Tea and Sympathy," and the screenwriter of the film "The Nun's Story." Among other things, he had a real affinity for writing sensitive, nuanced women. And the director is Robert Wise, an eclectic director who has made many great movies. Put out a dvd of this, someone.
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