His Majesty O'Keefe
(1954)
Directed by Byron
Haskin this film based on a true story stars Burt Lancaster, Joan
Rice, Andre Morell and Abraham Sofaer. During the 19th
century an American is ship wrecked on an island in the South Pacific
and schemes to earn his fortune from the island's natural resources.
The plot of this film
walks a dangerous line between older suspect ideas about race and
imperialism but eventually comes out on the right side by suggesting
the negative affects greed have on both the protagonist and the
natives. While the plot does eventually take the right take it could
have been bolder and more obvious in showing how greed is bad. Mostly
the film is well made, it stays in the general area of historical
events if not exactly telling the whole truth.
3/5
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