The Hawaiians

– A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties...

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.20 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 14 Minutes
Release Year:
1970
The Hawaiians (1970)

A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.

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Producing Country:
USA
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The Hawaiians (1970) - Trailer

Release Date:

05 Nov 1970

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Tom Gries

Writer:

James A. Michener (novel), James R. Webb (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Charlton Heston, Tina Chen, Geraldine Chaplin, Mako

Plot:

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.

Awards:

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.

Production:

MGM

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.2/10