The Hawaiians Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Tom Gries
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
R
Year:
1970
134 min
90 Views


In China, man, he bring baby.

I bring very good.

His name Kee Ah Chow,

all same Asia.

Asia? That little Pake?

He'd better have broad shoulders.

Pakes very strong.

Pretty soon come,

Africa...

America...

Australia.

I forget other name.

Here...

for luck.

Whip, there's something...

What wrong with me?

There's nothing wrong

with you.

Just hurry up and have

that baby so we...

Wu Chow's Auntie.

I'd be deeply grateful

if you could manage to...

that is if you still have enough?

Missy doesn't have any milk.

Missy's sick?

No, she'll be all right. The milk

will probably come in a day or two.

Thank you,

more than I can...

Who told you,

you could start a garden here?

Making money,

I sell in town.

Don't you have enough work?

I give you half,

all right?

Why do you need money for?

I'll see your family's fed.

Take money, buy land,

buy this land, maybe.

You can't buy this land,

is practically in my parlour.

Anyway, Chinese don't buy land.

They take money back to China.

I'm never going back!

All right.

Grow what you can,

and keep the money.

I may need to borrow

from you someday.

Overpeck!

Overpeck!

Damn!

Damn your scabby,

rummy soul.

Hello, love.

Get out to that rig.

You can take that food

right back down the hill.

He traded the last batch for booze,

he can work hungry for a while.

Food from garden,

doesn't cost anything.

Then take it in town

and sell it.

Pretty soon, water.

Pretty soon, dry hole.

Dry hole number four.

Come on, get in here.

Garden food belongs to me,

you said.

Any whiskey in there?

What makes you so sure

he'll find water?

Not sure. No sure in China,

I come here.

I have baby, garden...

alongside great man Hoxworth.

I think pretty soon water.

What the matter, honey?

I don't know.

Maybe is too soon.

You're fine,

the baby's fine.

Hell, it seems like

a year to me.

I don't want to stop you.

Good night.

Purity...

what are you doing?

Thinking back

a thousand years or so.

Thinking of the first canoes

that came up from Bora Bora.

Why did our people

come here?

Our people?

A little Hawaiian blood

doesn't make us natives.

It does if we want it to.

There was no one here

and they came thousands of miles.

Who knows how many lives

were lost in those canoes.

The missionaries,

the whalers...

the Chinese,

it was easy for them.

But, not for our people.

They were magnificent, Whip.

Is coming,

I promise you.

You've been saying that

for two years.

Is coming, i can feel it,

thas why I've got you here.

I can hear it.

I've got the land and now,

I've got the water.

The only difference between

a sugar planter and me is money.

Don't you want to see me

turn respectable?

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James R. Webb

James R. Webb (October 4, 1909 – September 27, 1974) was an American writer. He won an Academy Award in 1963 for How the West Was Won.Webb was born in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Stanford University in 1930. During the 1930s he worked both as a screenwriter and a fiction writer for a number of national magazines, including Collier's Weekly, Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post. Webb was commissioned an army officer in June 1942 and became a personal aide to General Lloyd R. Fredendall who was commander of the II Corps (United States). Webb accompanied Fredendall to England in October 1942 and participated in the invasion of North Africa in November 1942 when the Second Corps captured the city of Oran. The Second Corps then attacked eastward into Tunisia. In February 1943 the German army launched a counterattack at Kasserine Pass which repulsed the Second Corps and nearly broke through the Allied lines. The Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower relieved Fredendall of command in March 1943 and sent him back to the United States where he became deputy commander of the Second United States Army at Memphis, Tennessee. Webb returned to the United States with Fredendall and later served in the European Theater. Webb left the Army after the war and returned to Hollywood, California, where he continued his work as a screenwriter. He died on September 27, 1974, and was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery. more…

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