His Majesty O'Keefe
Adventure Beyond The Fabulous! Two Years In The Making! All Of It Actually Filmed In The Fiji Islands!
90 mins
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.
Lloyd Berrell
Inifel
Charles Horvath
Capt. Bully Hayes
Alexander Archdale
Bob Harris
Harvey Adams
Herr Friedlander
Sol Gorss
Tough Sailor in Fight (uncredited)
James Hill
Screenplay
Harold Hecht
Producer
Lawrence Klingman
Novel
Gerald Green
Novel
Manuel del Campo
Editor
Robert Farnon
Original Music Composer
Ted Haworth
Art Direction
Norman Deming
Associate Producer
Francis J. Scheid
Sound
Elizabeth Hennings
Costume Design
Richard McWhorter
Assistant Director
Marjorie Best
Costume Design
Stuart Freeborn
Makeup Artist
Jane Roth
Set Decoration
W. Simpson Robinson
Art Direction