The Proud and Profane

The Proud and Profane is a 1956 dramatic war romance made by William PerlbergGeorge Seaton Productions for Paramount Pictures. It was directed by George Seaton and produced by William Perlberg, from a screenplay by George Seaton, based on the novel The Magnificent Bastards by Lucy Herndon Crockett.

In Noumea, New Caledonia 1943, Lee Ashley Kerr, the widow of a Paramarine lieutenant killed on the Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal has joined the American Red Cross on the island to entertain American servicemen. Her leader at the service club, Kate Connors Ritter had initially been reluctant to have her assigned to New Caledonia lest she use her position as a pilgrimage to find out about her late husband. In addition to entertaining, serving the soldiers and giving French lessons, the Red Cross women are expected to help with the wounded which Lee initially refuses to do.A Marine Raider battalion comes to New Caledonia after fighting in the South Pacific. Their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Black Holden objects to the Red Cross women treating his men softly he states that the only place for women in war are skirts that the men chase and the sweethearts that wait for them back home. He changes his mind when he tries to seduce the attractive Lee, who initially refuses his advances. Black decides to gain her interest by pretending he knew Lees late husband and was with him shortly before he died. Though Lee despises the Colonels arrogance and demands, she is fascinated by him and falls in love with him. ........

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