High Barbaree

Opening by director Jack Conway, much to surmise as Navy pilot Alec (Van Johnson) and nurse Nancy (June Allyson) are parting, his uncle and C-O Thad (Thomas Mitchell) reassuring both, in the Pacific during the war, in the MGM drama, Van and June’s 2nd picture together, High Barbaree, 1947.

Navy nurse Nancy (June Allyson) intuits something amiss with her childhood beau and fiancè, rushing to his uncle and her captain (Thomas Mitchell), as we join him (Van Johnson as Alec) on his shot-down bomber with co-pilot Joe (Cameron Mitchell), then old times with his dad (Henry Hull), in MGM’s High Barbaree, 1947.

In a flashback by Van Johnson, as WWII Navy pilot Alec, recalling when he first saw his grown-up childhood companion Nancy, who became his fianceè, with his parents (Geraldine Wall, Henry Hull), Marilyn Maxwell his then-girlfriend, daughter of his boss at the airplane firm, in MGM’s High Barbaree, 1947.

As he awaits rescue in the South Pacific, a downed pilot (Van Johnson) tells his wounded companion the story of High Barbaree (1947).