The Hawaiians (1970)
7/10
Hawaii's sequel, the final saga under the US's powerful wings!!
29 August 2023
This last chapter over Hawaii's saga encompasses a period since 1870 until 1900, when United States added Hawaii as his far off new State, it begin where the original movie Hawaii left off in 1966, which Charlton Heston turned down, however he accepts make this sequel on 1970 as black sheep of family Captain Whip Hoxworth (Charlton Heston) from a powerful family Hoxworth-Hale from New England, he brings on his grandfather's Ship Carthaginian Chinese immigrants to works on Hawaii among them a young Mun Ki (Mako) and a single girl Nyuk Tsin (Tina Chen) to labor in a brothel, along the journey Munk Ki even already married is enchants by beautiful girl, arriving at harbor Capt. Hoxworth's wife Purity (Geraldine Chaplin) pays for Nyuk's freedom, bringing her and Munk Ki to work at your house.

Captain Hoxworth is warned that his grandfather comes to die a couple weeks before, grandfather's will he leaves to him a driest land where nothing grows, actually Hoxworth intents keeps with the ship Carthaginian while stay at shore caring for his grandfather's business, the majority of the grandfather inheritance were left to her sister and brother in law and Hale's wings of family, as Captain there any interest in the background family religion, his old grandfather punishes him on the will, he starts drills a deep hole on the latest pit that previously didn't gave a drop of water, although a modern drilling machine going deeply and the water comes to surface spouting stronger than never.

He robber from French Guyana a lot of pineapple's plants due the French refuses sell this profitable fruit, soon he became one most wealthy man on the Islands, he gave a small land to laborious Nyuk Tsin that already has five sons, even being their biological mother and Munk Ki is married with a Chinese woman left there, according Chinese tradition Nyuk is deemed as auntie only, few years later Munk Ki is diagnosed leprosy and sentenced to move to Malokai Island where they used to send those people, Nyuk decides go along with his sick husband, leaving his five children for their mates take care them, there she has another baby, a girl, Captain Hoxworth brings her to live with their brothers, few years later Munk Ki gonna die and Nyuk whom never got the decease going back at Hawaii, becoming henceforth a powerful business woman.

The picture also display the rupture of Hawaii as British protectorate territory passing the crow to ancient Polynesian's Queen, however the United States is around with a powerful fleet of naval ships to take over the whole territory, where Captain Hoxworth endorses, also a strong Japanese's wave of immigrants molding a multicultural heritage that remains nowadays, that's history of Hawaiians!!

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First watch: 1980 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD-R / Rating: 7.25.
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