With Steve McQueen, is better than the script. Most of the actors are Asian, including Wedemeyer, the onetime football star who went on to many happy years with Jack Lord on TV's 'Hawaii Five-O.' Heston's acting is icy, as he plays the founder of a Hawaiian dynasty. (in the book she lived to be 100 years old). The highlight performance is by Chen, who must age from a young girl to a woman in her middle years It's historically well designed, but the acting and the script are all of one note-B flat. This story, taken from the final pages of Michener's book, somehow managed to last more than two hours. In the end Heston's son and Chen's daughter Lee, are married, thus uniting Heston helps rebuild the scorched area and also wants to aid Chen, who is now ruined financially. A plague causes the Chinese ghetto to be burned to the ground. Hard-pressed to handle the woes that beset the new republic. McCowen is named the president of Hawaii but is Stevens is the Hawaiian queen attempting to regain control, but Heston, by now a very powerful landowner, makes sure she doesn't succeed. Pass and Chen comes back to the main island to learn that Heston has taken a Japanese mistress, Mayama. Meanwhile Chen's husband has contracted leprosy, so she goes with him to Molokai, the leper colony.

Hawaiian woman who does not like the white man's ways, so she takes their son (played by Martin, Paulsin, and Law as he ages from six to young manhood) away to raise him in her tradition. With Chen at his side he establishes a successful pineapple plantation. With the help of engineer Knight, Heston drills for water, strikes the wet stuff, and can now farm the once-dry land. Starts his own rival ranch using the Asians, two of whom are Chen and Mako. Upon arriving he learns that his grandfather's fortune was left to his cousin McCowen (played by four actors in HAWAII, two of whom were Max Von Sydow's sons), a middle-aged man. Slaves who have been-almost, but not quite-shanghaied to work the fields.

He comes to Hawaii and brings with him a shipful of Chinese Heston is the grandson of the character portrayed by Richard Harris in HAWAII. A dull sequel to a fairly tame movie (HAWAII), this one continues with James Michener's story but has the disadvantage of a supremely wooden Heston.

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