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Pretty lame and racist to boot! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jack Hawkins | ... | Phillip Wayne |
| Glynis Johns | ... | Marion Southey |
| Noel Purcell | ... | Paddy Clarke |
| Inia Te Wiata | ... | Hongi Tepe |
| Kenneth Williams | ... | Peter Wishart |
| Laya Raki | ... | Moana |
| Patrick Warbrick | ... | Awarua |
| Tony Erstich | ... | Bangiruru |
| Eddie Baker | ... | Toroa |
| Maharaia Winiata | ... | Hongi Tepe's Father |
| Thomas Heathcote | ... | Sergeant Paul |
 | Norman Mitchell | ... | Grayson |
| James Copeland | ... | Mackay |
| Francis De Wolff | ... | Captain Bryce |
| Henry Gilbert | ... | Aspiti Tohunga |
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This film, about white men colonising New Zealand in the early 1800's, starts off well as two sailors discover the Maori culture. Unfortunately once they return to colonise, things become melodramatic and silly. Hawkins is good, but the wonderful Glynis Johns is completely wasted. The most interesting casting is the young pre-Carry On Kenneth Williams playing, as butch as he can, a go-getter colonist. The ridiculous music score constantly over-powers the action, and the action scenes are poorly staged and filmed.
But what is most distressing about this film is its assertion that white man and his Christianity saved the Maoris from a savage society constantly at war and brought them peace. In reality white man brought mass slaughter, disease and cultural genocide. I am amazed that as late as the 1950's such imperialist racist attitudes still prevailed.