Savage Islands (1983) ( Nate and Hayes )

Savage Islands (1983) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Nate and Hayes
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Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1983 and produced in:
New Zealand ( Australia, New Zealand )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Ferdinand Fairfax

Written By:
John Hughes
David Odell

Actors:
Tommy Lee Jones ..... Captain Bully Hayes
Michael O'Keefe ..... Nathaniel Williamson
Max Phipps ..... Ben Pease
Jenny Seagrove ..... Sophie
Grant Tilly ..... Count Von Rittenberg
Peter Rowley ..... Louis Beck
William Johnson ..... Reverend Williamson
Kate Harcourt ..... Mrs. Williamson
Reg Ruka ..... Moaka
Roy Billing ..... Auctioneer
Bruce Allpress ..... Mr. Blake
David Letch ..... Ratbag
Prince Tui Teka ..... King of Ponape
Pudji Waseso ..... Fong
Peter Vere-Jones ..... Gunboat Captain

Synopsis:

After wiping out half a village of native South Pacific tribesmen, Captain Bully Hayes Tommy Lee Jones is eventually captured, put in prison, and the rest of this swashbuckling action film is told in a series of flashbacks as he remembers the recent past. The lead-in scene may be off-putting, but its larger context is soon revealed. Hayes had just left a young couple, Nate Michael O'Keefe and Sophie Jennie Seagrove on an island so they could set up housekeeping and follow in the missionary footsteps of an uncle, when the villain Ben Pease Max Phipps shows up, kidnaps Sophie and leaves her husband for dead. Pease runs into a German naval officer who feels it would be advantageous to join up with him - so when Captain Hayes saves Nate and, the two go looking for Sophie, their enemies are formidable villains indeed. Laced with humor and acting in the grand pirate-movie tradition, Nate and Hayes has enough adventure and style to stay entertaining for its 100-minute running time.

More in the vein of Raiders of the Lost Ark thrills and spills than Fairbanks swash and buckle, the story is told in flashback with good old-fashioned cut-and-thrust. In the South Pacific islands in the 1880s, Captain Bully Hayes (Jones) saves maidens in distress, performs impossible feats of agility, does battle with a German count (Tilly) intent on nasty military annexations with the aid of an ironclad warship, in a plot that is as credible as Hitler's diaries. Which makes not a lot of difference, for the film is to be enjoyed on a tongue-in-cheek level: lots of stunts and not too much mushy lovey-dovey stuff. Originality never raises its head, but it'll keep the kids from clammering for a glimpse of those video nasties.

Partners in Piracy. Rivals in Romance. Allies in Adventure.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 13 March, 2019.