His Majesty O'Keefe
1954 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 1,505 VOTES · DIR. Byron Haskin
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 779 lines
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00:01:46 Center of the coconut and copra trade.
00:06:41 ...this driving ambition to reach the top.
00:08:33 - I'll pay you $ 10 a ton. - It's a deal.
00:15:31 Tell him I'd like a hundred men at the coconut grove...
00:18:57 I thought you would.
00:21:08 This is the whale's tooth of remembrance.
00:24:12 They're not going to let an independent trader cut into their territories.
00:26:10 He is also my uncle. Come, I shall take you to him.
00:28:19 I have invaluable pearling charts.
00:33:21 We were forced to try another island.
00:36:21 I wish he hadn't.
00:38:47 And then you have the ceremony...
00:42:03 Walk down to the water.
00:45:00 How long will you be?
00:48:54 Look out for him, Dallie.
00:52:16 So they'll know what they're working for.
00:55:27 This was a new world for Dalabo.
00:58:20 Here's a sworn statement that our company has established a post on Yap.
01:01:39 I had become part of the O'Keefe legend.
01:06:38 - This is the last island you'll ever sack. - Well, if it ain't the great o'Keefe.
01:15:34 Did I tell them?
01:18:43 And tell him I will give him many of these rifles.
01:25:03 You are our king.
01:30:07 [ENGLISH]