Cary Grant brings his delightful wit and charm to this heartwarming romantic comedy as Walter Eckland a grouchy civilian beachcomber in the South Pacific.Eckland is tricked into duty during WWII and abandoned on an isolated island to report enemy ship and plane movements to Allied reconnaissance. His solitude is interrupted by a distress call from another station where he discovers seven young schoolgirls and their attractive headmistress played by the gorgeous Leslie Caron. When they return to the island and try to share his already cramped living quarters the battle of the sexes that ensues is as explosive as the real war that surrounds them!
