The Hawaiians (film)
The Hawaiians, released in the UK as Master of the Islands, is a 1970 American historical film based on the novel Hawaii by James A. Michener. It was directed by Tom Gries with a screenplay by James R. Webb. The cast included Charlton Heston as Whipple Hoxworth and Geraldine Chaplin. The performance by Tina Chen led to a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actress.
The story begins forty years after the events depicted in the original Hawaii, as a new generation of Americans and Asians must deal with a changing island and world one of them is a sea captain.Whipple Whip Hoxworth Charlton Heston returns home to Hawaii to find his grandfather has died and left his fortune to Hoxworths cousin, Micah Hale Alec McCowen. Hoxworth, the black sheep of his otherwise very conservative and disapproving family, starts a plantation, staffing it with newly arrived Chinese indentured servants Mun Ki Mako and his second wifeconcubine Nyuk Tsin Tina Chen. ........
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