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April 7th, 2010 by admin | Filed under Movies.
lonnie and linda h asked:
it was an old war movie about a airplane ? shot down on during war time the man woman and (orphan ?) kids were stranded on an island later even though they couldn’t get along (almost like the african queen ) later man married woman but didn’t have a real ring and so he married her using a cigar band for a ring. later they were saved from the island and he later did give her a real ring a custom made ring with diamonds etc. that looked like that cigar ring . does anyone know the movie name? i have been trying to find out what it was for quit a while also what year was it made ? i beleive it was in color . thanks !!
it was an old war movie about a airplane ? shot down on during war time the man woman and (orphan ?) kids were stranded on an island later even though they couldn’t get along (almost like the african queen ) later man married woman but didn’t have a real ring and so he married her using a cigar band for a ring. later they were saved from the island and he later did give her a real ring a custom made ring with diamonds etc. that looked like that cigar ring . does anyone know the movie name? i have been trying to find out what it was for quit a while also what year was it made ? i beleive it was in color . thanks !!
Tags: Cigar Ring, Man Woman, Orphan
Is that the one with Cary Grant and Leslie Caron?
Father Goose (1964)–Grant, Caron, and a group of school girls are stranded on an island during WWII; the girls and their teacher were in a plane crash; the couple get married by a minister over the radio, and are later rescued from the island.
Here’s more of the plot (pretty close to the one that you describe):
Deliberately casting his established screen image to the four winds, Cary Grant plays Walter Eckland, an unkempt, uncouth and unshaven beach bum in Father Goose. During World War II, Walter keeps busy relaying radio reports of Japanese air activity. But he’s no hero, and in fact volunteered for this mission only because he’s been promised a shipment of liquor by Australian naval officer Frank Houghton (Trevor Howard). Making matters worse for the misanthropic Eckland is the arrival of French schoolmistress Catherine Freneau (Leslie Caron) and her seven little-girl charges, whose plane has crashed nearby. The animosity between Walter and Catherine erupts into a slapping contest, with Walter dishing it out as well as taking it. Only when Catherine is bitten by a deadly snake does Walter express his affections for her.
P.S.–If this is not the correct movie, let us know here so we can keep looking…
Another possible movie is called The Bananas Boat (1974) aka What Changed Charley Farthing?
Stars Doug McClure as a wayfaring sailor stopping over in Havana. In the tradition of The African Queen, the sailor becomes a reluctant hero when he is hired to give safe passage out of Cuba to a young woman (Hayley Mills) and her father (Lionel Jeffries). This involves stealing a boat, ducking the authorities, and avoiding bullets.
In 1963, The Dick Powell Theatre aired an hour-long episode titled “Safari”, starring James Coburn as a scruffy steamboat captain and Glynis Johns as an English missionary. What this really was was a pilot for a TV series based on the 1951 Humphrey Bogart- Katharine Hepburn film classic The African Queen. That pilot never sold, nor did this 60-minuter from 1977, also titled The African Queen. Warren Oates plays the Bogart role as Charlie Allnut, while Mariette Hartley steps into Hepburn’s shoes as Rosie Sayer. Set in Africa during World War 1, The African Queen was filmed in the Florida everglades and was telecast for the first and last time on March 18, 1977.
The answer is not Father Goose. They were not marooned, they used a Band-Aid not a cigar band, they were not saved from the island and there was no custom made ring with diamonds that looked like the cigar band.