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form y separately published work icon Heaven Knows, Mr Allison single work   film/TV   war literature  
Adaptation of Heaven Knows, Mister Allison : A Novel Charles Shaw , 1952 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1957... 1957 Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
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Adaptation of Charles Shaw's novel about a marine and a nun trapped on a Japanese-occupied Pacific island during World War II.

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Notes

  • Producer Eugene Frenke went on to writer and direct The Nun and the Soldier, which is often called a 'cut-down' version of Heaven Knows, Mr Allison, but the former bears littler resemblance to Shaw's novel, other than using a nun and a marine as the protagonists.

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      Americas,      :       20th Century Fox ,       1957 .
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      Extent: 108min.p.
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Awards

1958 nominated Academy Awards — Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
1958 nominated Writers Guild of America Award — Best Written American Drama
1958 nominated British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards — Best Film from Any Source
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