The Proud and Profane
A MOVIE OF STARTLING FRANKNESS...!
Overview
In this romantic drama, beautiful Red Cross volunteer Lee Ashley arrives on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the death of her husband, Howard, in the Battle of Guadalcanal. There, Ashley falls for the gruff, seductive Marine Lt. Col. Colin Buck, but struggle and tragedy follow when the widow learns about the reality of Buck's life back home.
- Production
- Perlberg-Seaton Productions, Paramount Pictures
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Cast
William Holden
Lt. Col. Colin Black
Deborah Kerr
Lee Ashley
Thelma Ritter
Kate Connors
Dewey Martin
Eddie Wodcik
William Redfield
Chaplain Lt. (jg) Holmes
Ross Bagdasarian
Louie
Adam Williams
Eustace Press
Marion Ross
Joan
Theodore Newton
Bob Kilpatrick
Richard Shannon
Major
Peter Hansen
Lieutenant (jg) Hutchins
Ward Wood
Sergeant Chester Peckinpaugh
Ann Morriss
Pat
George Brenlin
Casualty
Robert Morse
Casualty
Ray Stricklyn
Casualty
Frank Gorshin
Harry
Claude Akins
Big soldier
Michele Montau
Lili Carere (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- George Seaton
- Writers
- George Seaton,George Seaton
- Producers
- William Perlberg
- Cinematography
- John F. Warren
- Composer
- Victor Young
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CinemaSerf
January 5, 2025
"Lee" (Deborah Kerr) travels to the French colony of New Caledonia to do what she can for the war effort and after a brief conversation with her boss "Kate" (Thelma Ritter) we discover that she's gone all that way because her husband was killed at Guadalcanal. She's advised to focus on her nursing responsibilities and not to risk getting involved with any of the soldiers, and that goes fine until she butts heads with "Col. Black" (William Holden). He knew her late husband, or so he tells her, an…