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| Directed by | George Roy Hill |
| Produced by | Walter Mirisch |
| Written by | James A. Michener (novel) Dalton Trumbo & Daniel Taradash (screenplay) |
| Starring | Julie Andrews Max von Sydow Gene Hackman Jocelyne LaGarde Richard Harris Carroll O'Connor |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Russell Harlan |
| Editing by | Stuart Gilmore |
| Studio | The Mirisch Corporation |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | October 10, 1966 |
| Running time | 189 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hawaii is a 1966 American film directed by George Roy Hill and based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener. It tells the story of an 1820s Yale University divinity student (Max von Sydow) who, along with his new bride (Julie Andrews), becomes a Calvinist missionary in the Hawaiian Islands. It was filmed at Old Sturbridge Village, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
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The film was based on the book's third chapter From the Farm of Bitterness, which covered the settlement of the island kingdom by its first American missionaries.[1]
Needing a Polynesian female for the key role of Queen Malama, the Alii Nui, the producers hired a native Tahitian for the role. French-speaking Jocelyne LaGarde had never acted before and could not speak English; however, her screen test showed a powerful presence, and the producers hired a coach to train her phonetically to handle the character's dialog. Of the all-star cast, LaGarde would be the only one to earn an Academy Award nomination and the only one to win a Golden Globe Award. The film was also the highest-grossing film of 1966. Orginally, it was to be directed by the man who made From Here To Eternity, Fred Zinnemann, but he fought with the studio a few years before and was in England working on A Man For All Seasons. Then director George Roy Hill was asked to work on the film: he agreed, and the film became the only epic he directed. He would do other films, but none as big as this one.
The film as originally released ran 189 minutes (including overture, intermission, entr'acte, and exit music). This roadshow version would be issued on VHS and LaserDisc from the best available elements. For general release, it was subsequently cut by UA to 162 minutes and is the one on DVD (as the best elements suitable for DVD came from the general release). Both versions have been broadcast on Turner Classic Movies and This TV Network.
The principal characters in the film were portrayed as follows:
Bette Midler also had her first on-screen movie appearance in Hawaii as a ship passenger with no dialogue.
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