Release Date

16 Jan, 1954

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Adventure Beyond The Fabulous! Two Years In The Making! All Of It Actually Filmed In The Fiji Islands!

Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it! Screen royalty Burt Lancaster is His Majesty O'Keefe in this last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbuckler genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeus Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O'Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.

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Actors

Burt Lancaster

Joan Rice

André Morell

Abraham Sofaer

Archie Savage

Benson Fong

Tessa Prendergast

Lloyd Berrell

Charles Horvath

Philip Ahn

Guy Doleman

Grant Taylor

Alexander Archdale

Harvey Adams

James Dime

Sol Gorss

Paul Picerni

Jack Stoney

Crew

Borden Chase

Lawrence Klingman

James Hill

Byron Haskin

Harold Hecht

Gerald Green

Ted Haworth

Otto Heller

Robert Farnon

Dimitri Tiomkin

Manuel del Campo

Norman Deming

Stuart Freeborn

W. Simpson Robinson