HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE (1954) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Byron Haskin
Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, André Morell,
Benson Fong, Abraham Sofaer, Archie Savage,
Philip Ahn, Charles Horvath, Tessa Prendergast
Cast adrift by a mutinous crew, a dashing sea captain washes up on a tropical island and immediately sees that there's a fortune to be made in coconut oil. Now all he has to do is secure some financing, find a boat and a crew, and coax the islanders into harvesting their coconuts. A colorful South Seas adventure, more leisurely than Lancaster's other swashbucklers, but still a passable showcase for Burt's distinctive brand of derring-do. If the '20s had Douglas Fairbanks, and the '30s and '40s had Errol Flynn, the '50s most emphatically had Burt Lancaster.
