Details

Release year: 1964

Storyline

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

Top credits

Directors

Ralph Nelson

Writers

Cast

Cary Grant — Walter
Leslie Caron — Catherine
Trevor Howard — Houghton
Jack Good — Stebbings

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Awards

1 win & 2 nominations

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Did you know

• This was one of Cary Grant's favorite projects. He always maintained his role in this film was most like his real personality. He claimed he kept in touch with most of the girls as they grew up and had families of their own.

• The penultimate film of Cary Grant's career, it was the last time he played a romantic lead. In the following year he refused the romantic lead in his final film, Walk Don't Run (1966), a remake of The More the Merrier (1943) set during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, because, at 61, he felt he was too old to be a believable love interest for the much younger lead female character.

• The film features the same piece of stock footage of a submarine firing a torpedo that was used in Cary Grant's previous World War II comedy Operation Petticoat (1959).