Drama starring
MaxvonSydow Julie Andrews
An adaptation of James Michener 's best-selling novel set in 19th-century
Hawaii. Fresh from Yale Divinity School, Abner Hale becomes a rigid puritan missionary who attempts to impose his view of civilisation on the idyllic life of the Hawaiian islanders - with dire consequences for all concerned.
Director George Roy Hill (1966)
FILM REVIEWS pages 53-60