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.
Burt LancasterCapt. David Dion O'Keefe
Joan RiceDalabo aki Dali
André MorellAlfred Tetins
Abraham SofaerFatumak, Medicine Man
Archie SavageBoogulroo
Benson FongMr. Chou
Tessa PrendergastKakofelLloyd BerrellInifel
Charles HorvathCapt. Bully Hayes
Philip AhnSien Tang, Dentist
Guy DolemanHerb Weber
Grant TaylorLt. BrennerAlexander ArchdaleBob HarrisHarvey AdamsHerr Friedlander
Jimmy DimeSailor at Table in Saloon (uncredited)
