Vintage original 11x14 in. Combined Continuity script from the popular 1970's drama, THE HAWAIIANS, released in 1970 by United Artists and directed by Tom Gries. Based upon the novel by James A. Michener, 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. The cast includes Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, John Phillip Law, Mako, Tina Chen, and Alec McCowen.
This oversized 11x14 in. Combined Continuity script was prepared after the film was shot, edited, and titled. It breaks the entire film down by each reel (7 reels for this film) and includes a description of the scene and action and all of the lines of dialogue. It is complete in overall very fine- condition random signs of wear (including paper loss) on the title page; a light 1.25 in. diagonal crease on the bottom left corner of the following 25 or so pages; and random signs of wear and areas of paper loss on the last page. There are no other tears, stains, writing, or other flaws.
The Hawaiians was a sequel to the very popular Hawaii (1966), using unused sections of James A. Michener's extremely long best-seller for its plot. Charlton Heston had been asked to star in Hawaii, but had turned it down (he claimed that the producers were uncertain as to whether he should play the missionary or the sea-captain); he may have regretted this, as the film he did appear in during the same year, Khartou, was a flop. However, this sequel was panned by critics and had nothing like the earlier film's success. Although he had declined the original Hawaii in 1966, Heston was willing to make this sequel. According to David Shipman's Great Movie Stars- the International Years, Heston was paid $750, 000 plus 10% of the profits. The film's original cinematographer, Lucien Ballard, fell ill during production and was replaced by Philip H. Lathrop.