The Hasty Heart (1949) (original) (raw)
Monsoons drench them. The sun scorches them. Still, the Allies fight doggedly through Burma in 1945. For easygoing Yank (Ronald Reagan) and hard-headed Lachie (Richard Todd), the road to victory ends at a jungle hospital. With the help of a devoted nurse (Patricia Neal), they face a new battle called recovery. THE HASTY HEART playwright John Patrick drew from his own wartime service in a British ambulance unit. Vincent Sherman (THE HARD WAY, MR. SKEFFINGTON) directs this sensitive adaptation sparked by the performance that ranks with KINGS ROW as Reagan's best. The future President wasn't the ...(more)
Monsoons drench them. The sun scorches them. Still, the Allies fight doggedly through Burma in 1945. For easygoing Yank (Ronald Reagan) and hard-headed Lachie (Richard Todd), the road to victory ends at a jungle hospital. With the help of a devoted nurse (Patricia Neal), they face a new battle called recovery. THE HASTY HEART playwright John Patrick drew from his own wartime service in a British ambulance unit. Vincent Sherman (THE HARD WAY, MR. SKEFFINGTON) directs this sensitive adaptation sparked by the performance that ranks with KINGS ROW as Reagan's best. The future President wasn't the only one to draw accolades. Todd won a 1949 Best Actor Oscar nomination and a most promising newcomer Golden Globe Award as the valorous, wounded Scotsman who doesn't know that his new fight is his last. (less)
Director: Vincent Sherman
Writers: Ranald MacDougall, John Patrick
Starring: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls, Howard Marion-Crawford, Ralph Michael
Narrator: Robert Douglas
Producer: Robert Clark
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