The Hawaiians ( Master of the Islands )

The Hawaiians (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Master of the Islands
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
130 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Documentary
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1970 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tom Gries

Written By:
James Michener (novel)
James R. Webb

Actors:
Charlton Heston ..... Whipple 'Whip' Hoxworth
Geraldine Chaplin ..... Purity Hoxworth
John Phillip Law ..... Noel Hoxworth
Mako ..... Mun Ki
Khigh Dhiegh ..... Kai Chung
Don Knight ..... Milton Overpeck
Virginia Ann Lee ..... Mei Li
Keye Luke ..... Foo Sen
Lyle Bettger ..... Janders
Naomi Stevens ..... Queen Liliuokalani
Harry Townes ..... Houghton
Tina Chen ..... Char Nyuk Tsin
Alec McCowen ..... Micah Hale
Miko Mayama ..... Fumiko
Chris Robinson ..... Dr. Whipple Jr

Synopsis:

The Hawaiians is the sequel to 1969's Hawaii; both films were adapted from the same sprawling novel by James A. Michener. Charlton Heston is top-billed as a sailor who returns to his Hawaiian homestead, only to learn that his grandfather's fortune has been bestowed upon his hated cousin Alec McCowan. As a reprisal, Heston sets up his own pineapple plantation in competition with his cousin. Heston's son John Phillip Law falls in love with the daughter (Virginia Ann Lee) of a Chinese farmer (Mako). The issue of miscegenation rears its ugly head, but by the end of this very long film Heston's family is united by marriage to the Chinese clan. The British title of The Hawaiians was Master of the Islands.

The intertwined lives of two kindred souls with ambition begins when Captain Whip Hoxworth discovers that Nyuk Tsin has been smuggled aboard as part of cargo on The Carthaginian, which he captains, a cargo supposed to consist of only male Chinese workers bound for Hawaii. Nyuk Tsin was kidnapped from her Haaka village to be sold to a Honolulu brothel. She is spared when Mun Ki claims she is his wife, and Hoxworth goes along with his wife's suggestion that they can work in the Hoxworth household as domestic servants. Nyuk Tsin becomes known to all as Wu Chow's Auntie (Aunt of Five Continents) when her five sons are named after continents (with Mun Ki's wife in China regarded as their official mother). Whip founds an empire in pineapples, using Japanese laborers, after smuggling his first seed crop from French Guiana as Wu Chow's Auntie grows a family business in Honolulu around her sons.

James A. Michener's story of Hawaii continues in The Hawaiians (1970) with Charlton Heston seeking power and finding love in the islands.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 31 May, 2007.

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