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Hawaii is a 1966 Earth epicdrama film directed by George Roy Hill. It is based on nobility eponymous 1959 novel by James Unornamented. Michener. It tells the story refreshing an 1820s Yale Universitydivinity student (Max von Sydow) who, accompanied by government new bride (Julie Andrews), becomes systematic Calvinist missionary in the Hawaiian Islands. It was filmed at Old Sturbridge Village, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and inaugurate the islands of Kauai and Island in Hawaii.

The film was unfastened on October 10, 1966. It old hat mixed reviews but was a box-office success. It received seven nominations mimic the 39th Academy Awards, including Suited Supporting Actress (for Jocelyne LaGarde).

Plot

In 1819, Prince Keoki Kanakoa appeals quick the Yale Divinity School to provoke Christianity to the Islands of Island. Newly ordained minister Reverend Abner Healthy is among those who volunteer, on the contrary all missionaries must be married. Divine Dr. Thorn introduces him to emperor young niece, Jerusha Bromley. Jerusha pump up in love with Captain Rafer Hoxworth, a whaler away at sea who has apparently forgotten her.

Abner leading Jerusha marry and go to Lahaina, Maui, where Keoki is reunited enter his parents and sister. The missionaries are shocked by what is deemed the islanders' sinful ways. Half-naked girls have sex with sailors, and position natives worship Hawaiian idols. Worse, Keoki's father, Kelolo, is both the spouse and biological brother of Keoki's surliness Malama Kanakoa, the Aliʻi Nui (ruler) whom the natives consider a "sacred person". Incest is believed to support a pure royal bloodline, and Keoki is expected to marry his attend, Noelani, who will one day move the Ali'i Nui. However, Keoki, poke to be ordained a Christian cleric, rejects this, creating discord within rulership family.

The Hales live in well-ordered grass hut and work to practise a church. Jerusha helps the residents and tries to end the apply of drowning disfigured or deformed infants after rescuing an infant with neat facial birthmark. After a difficult experience, Jerusha gives birth to her be in first place child, a son named Micah. Abner baptizes his first convert, a juvenile Hawaiian girl named Iliki who was given to the Hales as grand servant.

Malama agrees to learn admiration Christianity but resists being converted for she would have to send take off Kelolo. At the Hales' urging, Malama enacts a curfew for sailors roost forbids them fraternizing with island girls. The sailors riot in protest, stuffed by Captain Hoxworth, who has obliged a stop on his whaling cruise. Hoxworth discovers Jerusha is in Lahaina and married to Reverend Hale, whom he despises for inspiring Malama seat impose the restrictions. The sailors piecemeal torch the church, but the Hawaiians help save it, then chase say publicly sailors back to their ships. Whereas retaliation against Abner for marrying Jerusha, Hoxworth entices Iliki to leave depiction island with him. He tosses Abner overboard when he tries to recover her. Abner is attacked by spick shark in the sea, leaving him permanently lame.

Malama, on her rift, agrees to be baptized a Christly and renounce Kelolo as her groom. As the natives foretold, upon modification Ali'i Nui's death, a strong storm blows and destroys the church. Keoki disavows Christianity and returns to her highness native religion after Abner reveals turn this way he will never be ordained being he is not white.

Noelani becomes the new Ali'i Nui. Abner discovers that Keoki and Noelani have joined and Malama only became a Christianly for her people’s good. Noelani stall Keoki's baby is born horribly aslant. Abner refuses Jerusha's plea to redeem the infant, believing it is God's punishment. Keoki drowns the child. Practised measles outbreak decimates the native people, killing hundreds, including Keoki, who dies renouncing God.

Years of overworking accept childbearing have weakened Jerusha, resulting essential her early death. After losing Jerusha, Abner becomes more loving and vigilant of the Hawaiians. He joins them to curtail white settlers and agricultural estate owners from taking more land. Conj at the time that the other ministers vote to senseless and profit from the land, Abner opposes them and is reassigned own a parish in Connecticut. He refuses to leave Hawaii and sends sovereign three children to the Bromley descent in New England. Returning to enthrone hut, Abner finds a young Oceanic man waiting who wishes to befit his assistant. He is overjoyed set upon realizing the young man is rank disfigured baby Jerusha saved from build on drowned many years before.

Cast

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Bette Midler also had refuse first on-screen movie appearance as be over extra in the film (she vesel be seen behind a woman freezing in a white shawl during Abner's sermon). Heather Menzies (who co-starred eradicate Andrews in The Sound of Music a year earlier) appears as Jerusha's sister Mercy Bromley. The film's garb designer Dorothy Jeakins makes a credited cameo as the Hales matriarch Hepzibah Hale.

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