His Majesty O'Keefe

1954
PG
1h 31m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,1/10

1,5 k

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Liretrailer3 min 10 s

1 vidéo

40 photos

Action Adventure Biography Drama Romance

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia.A Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia.A Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,1/10

1,5 k

MA NOTE

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Vidéos1

Trailer 3:10

His Majesty O'Keefe

Photos39

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Anecdotes
Although heavily Hollywoodized, the film is based on real individuals and events. There is a boutique hotel in Yap named after him (O'Keefe's), and the style of construction reflects the architecture of O'Keefe's time.

Gaffes
O'Keefe returns to Hong Kong and stock footage is shown of people walking down a street. However, the movie is set in the 1870s and the footage is of 1950s Hong Kong. Giveaways include signs such as "No Motors".

Citations
Capt. David O'Keefe: Goodbye, Fatumak. Thank you for everything. Goodbye!
Fatumak, Medicine Man: There are no goodbyes between friends.
[handing him a necklace]
Fatumak, Medicine Man: This is the whale's tooth of remembrance until we meet again.

Connexions
Featured in A Fellow Journeyman: Byron Haskin at Paramount (2022)

Bandes originales
EMERALD ISLE
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin
Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

Commentaires des utilisateurs27

Commentaire en vedette

Why work?

A deeply subversive, yet utterly enjoyable (and kinda true)South Seas movie from the 50's. Burt Lancaster is a typical 19th century trader/pirate whose only ambition is to make money out of the "natives", and fast. He comes to a Pacific Island Utopia where no one has to work... because who needs money?...

Vastly underrrated, this film makes all kinds of points. The Natives (half of whom, admittedly,are white guys in blackface)are dangerous quasi-cannibals. But the white guys (including Burt!)are plain Euro- Trash. The head chief, and Burt's head wife (Joan Rice in a lovely performance - she takes the cliché of the innocent island girl and makes a performance out of it with her eyelashes) are the real heroes.

Did I mention the Chinese dentist who knows more about investments than Burt? Or the German philosophy student who can relate to the natives better than Europeans? Filmed on location in Fiji with a cast that seem to be having the time of their lives, HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE is a very simple, yet completely fun relic of the non-PC days. (P.S. Check out the other scripts by Borden Chase. Some good ones there...)