Hawaii (1966)

Missionaries in the early 1800s head out to the wild islands of Hawaii. Once there, the humorless Rev. Hale shames the locals out of their marriage customs and scares them with hellfire. His only redeeming feature is that he arrived with his wife, played by the lovely Julie Andrews.

The movie does a great job of highlighting the beauty of the land and the rigidity of colonialism, but says it with about as much finesse as an old-fashioned sermon and takes about four times as long as one.

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