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His Majesty O'Keefe (1953)

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11:30-13:00 Wed 11th Apr 2012 90m
BBC2

Synopsis

Burt Lancaster is in fine, devil-may-care form in this swashbuckling adventure, playing a sea captain who teaches South Sea islanders how to be enterprising and beat off pirates. Joan Rice supplies the glamour as the Polynesian girl who becomes queen to Lancaster's king. The film's colonial message - naive natives ruled by intrepid white man - is dubiously patronising, but the good-natured breeziness defies serious criticism. Byron Haskin directs from a script by Borden Chase, and there's a rousing Dimitri Tiomkin score to complement the action.