Academy Awards, USA 1948
| Won Oscar | Best Effects, Special Effects A. Arnold Gillespie (visual) Warren Newcombe (visual) Douglas Shearer (audible) Michael Steinore (audible) |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Cinematography, Black-and-White George J. Folsey |
| Best Sound, Recording Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD) | |
| Best Film Editing George White |
MGM
Directed by Victor Saville
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Wealthy sisters Donna Reed and Lana Turner both fall in love with the bad boy next door. He secretly falls for Donna, but their budding relationship is interrupted when he joins the navy and sails to China. He goes AWOL after a drunken night out and ends up in New Zealand as a deserter. As luck would have it, his old friend Van Heflin is there and they operate a successful timber business together. He writes a letter to home asking his old flame Donna to marry him, but mixes up the name with the sister. When she arrives he reluctantly marries the wrong girl and they spend the next several years unhappily married. Tedious romantic drama is padded with contrived situations such as an earthquake, Maori rebellion and Donna's conversion to a nun.
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