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Just an old memory...

Watching the film HAWAII on Prime and remembering going to see it way back when it was first released in the 1960s. I was in my teens, it was a Friday night, and a group of the school football team went to the movies to relax the night before the game. There is a scene where the sailing ship is fighting through high seas, in danger of sinking, and Max Van Sydow is playing a preacher who cradles and injured man and shouts "God is with us!" Just as he yells this, a wave crashes through an open hatch and almost floods the actors. For some reason, I just couldn't resist saying loudly, "There he is now!"

Actually, it went over quite well, getting a lot of laughter from the theater goers around us.
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PhilDeep · 51-55, M
When I was a lot younger I remember noticing a lot of novels by James Michener at the library, and thinking some day I'd get around to reading them. I'm not sure how popular he may or may not be now, but did you ever read the novel the film was based on, or any of his others?
Byron8by7 · M
@PhilDeep The film, "Hawaii," is based on the third chapter of the novel, "From the Farm of Bitterness," about missionaries coming to Hawaii in the 1800s.

I saw the movie when it came out in 1966.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Me, too. And I think I read the novel about 50 years ago.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@PhilDeep And I ordered Michener's Pultizer Prize winning book, TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC just yesterday. I THINK I also read his CENTENNNIAL about 40 years ago.

 
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