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The Late Film: The Proud and the Profane

on BBC One London

starring William Holden, Deborah Kerr
With Thelma Ritter, Dewey Martin, William Redfield

The war in the Pacific is at its height in 1943 when Lee Ashley, a Red Cross worker, comes on a strange personal pilgrimage to the scene of her husband's death at Guadalcanal. She is fascinated and repelled by Lt-Col Black, a tough and ruthless soldier who claims to have known her husband.

(Black and white)
(Films: page 23)

Contributors

Author:
Lucy Herndon Crockett
Writer/Director:
George Seaton
Producer:
William Perlberg
Lt-Col Colin Black:
William Holden
Lee Ashley:
Deborah Kerr
Kate Connors:
Thelma Ritter
Eddie Wodcik:
Dewey Martin
Chaplain:
William Redfield
Louie:
Ross Bagdasarian
Bob Kilpatrick:
Theodore Newton
Sgt Peckinpaugh:
Ward Wood

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