Product Details

• Actors: Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, Tina Chen, John Phillip Law, Alec McCowen
• Format: PAL, Import, Full Screen
• Language: English, Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Vella Vision
• Run Time: 129 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000AOL0GY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,043 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Hawaiians [Region 2]" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), 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.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Golden Globes, Oscar Academy Awards, ...The Hawaiians

Customer Reviews

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I want to see this movie again - In English!, November 10, 2006

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Kathleen Huber (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hawaiians [Region 2] (DVD)

I, too, am irritated that the only available copies of "The Hawaiians" are in the Spanish format and can't be played on American machines. I remember seeing this back in the 1970s and loving it. What neither of the other reviews I've read here mention is that it is primarily the story of two young Chinese who are brought to Hawaii to work on Charlton Heston's plantation. They are played (wonderfully) by Tina Chen and a very young Mako. They eventually marry and have five sons. When Mako's character contracts leprosy and is sent to the leper colony on Molokai, his wife follows him there, stays with him and nurses him till he dies, then returns and begins (through clever investment, saving of every penny and a brilliant business sense) to build an empire of her own. When one of her sons responds to one of her suggestions with "I'm sorry - That's impossible," she draws herself up and fiercely spits back "Impossible come back from Molokai!" (A genuine friendship gradually builds between this remarkable woman and Charlon Heston's character - based on mutual respect for each other's ambition and determination.)
It's the third section of Mitchner's "Hawaii" book, which deals with ALL the cultures (Polynesian, New Englanders, Chinese and Japanese) who eventually created the "Golden Men" - the modern Hawaiians.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Hawaiians, July 21, 2006

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Terri "3kids-at-home" (Crescent City, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hawaiians [Region 2] (DVD)

This is the sequel to the movie Hawaii with Julie Andrews. I saw this just last year on T.V. and it' a movie about the eldest Hale son who comes back to Hawaii after attending college where his grandparents lived. He deals with the Chinese workers and their culture, and becomes one of the first pineapple growers there. This is a good movie about he early lepers, and how they were dumped on Molokai, and left until their dying days there. It's too bad they don't make this for the real Hawaiians to see, after all, people in Spain could care less about Hawaiian history! This movie needs to be formatted for the U.S., where the movie is originally made to begin with. We want a copy of this on DVD too, but can't find it anywhere except here, where it's not only in Spanish, but in a different code, so it can't be played on our DVD players in the United States. What's up with that? If you live in the U.S., don't buy this DVD from this company, it won't play on your DVD player. This is an excellent movie, and we all want to view it too!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Whip Hand, November 8, 2005

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Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hawaiians [Region 2] (DVD)

Isn't it crazy how you can only get this film on DVD from Spain, and with a Region 2 ratio slapped on it so that unless you've got a multi-region player you won't be able to view any of THE HAWAIIANS? Well boys and girls, remember, this is the sequel to HAWAII, and you'll recall the trouble we had seeing that one in proper form for so many years, and if truth be told the correct roadshow version is still out of print, and the version on DVD is still the same old cut print pretty much, spruced up a little of course.

In the case of THE HAWAIIANS, it is amusing to listen to this film with the Spanish track turned up. The actors on screen are speaking a combination of languages, and certainly Charlton Heston and Geraldine Chaplin do not sound like they're from the same country, and by the way has anyone ever been able to figure out what country John Philip Law is from? (I know it's some angelic space like Venus.) Heston must have felt a sense of deja vu for his role, that of the autocratic owner of a pineapple plantation, is markedly similar to the part he played in the superior NAKED JUNGLE of 1954 with Eleanor Parker as the mail order bride, and an army of red killer ants besides. Heston is supposed to be playing the grandson of Richard Harris (in the first HAWAII), and Chaplin is sort of a princess type who intermarries with the Hoxworth clan and suffers a severe nervous breakdown when exposed to Heston's domineering ways. You can tell a lot about a character when his name is "WHIP"!

The music is by Henry Mancini in his best THORN BIRDS mode with plenty of lush, melodic themes and a hint of native percussion.

Whip goes head to head with the incredibly evil Alec McCowen. If you like your Charlie Chan movies you will be thrilled to see Son #1 (Keye Luke) and Son #2 (the luscious Victor Sen Yung) both in the same picture! And if you press the right button you can hear them both speaking heavy Spanish.