- The Hasty Heart
Infobox Film
name = The Hasty Heart
caption =
director =Vincent Sherman
producer =Russell Crouse Howard Lindsay
writer =Ranald MacDougall John Patrick (play)
starring =Richard Todd Ronald Reagan Patricia Neal
music =Jack Beaver
cinematography =Wilkie Cooper
editing = Edward Jarvis
distributor = ABPC
released = December 1949
runtime = 102 min.
country = UK
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0041445"The Hasty Heart" (1949) is a
melodrama tic film which tells the story of a group of wounded Allied soldiers duringWorld War II who rally around a surly, unappreciative Scotsman when they find out he is dying. The film starsRonald Reagan as the American,Patricia Neal as the harried nurse,Richard Todd as the Scotsman, Anthony Nicholls as the hospital commander,Howard Marion-Crawford as the British soldier,John Sherman as the Australian, andOrlando Martins as the African.The film was adapted by
Ranald MacDougall from the play byJohn Patrick . It was directed byVincent Sherman .Richard Todd was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Actor ."The Hasty Heart" was remade for television in 1983. It starred
Jesse Ferguson ,Gregory Harrison ,Perry King andCheryl Ladd .Film location
Westertimke POW camp, liberated 28.4.144 by 21st Anti Tank Regmt.(War Diaries)
ee also
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Ronald Reagan films
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