DIAMOND HEAD (FILM)

'''Diamond Head''' was a 1963 movie starring Charlton Heston and Yvette Mimieux, directed by Guy Green. The original music score was composed by John Williams. The film's tagline is: "The giant story of modern Hawaii."
Areas of Diamond Head are also used while filming the television series ''Lost'' which is filmed entirely on location on the island of Oahu. Seen from the Waikīkī Beach, Diamond Head looks just like the "black mountain" featured in ''Lost''.

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Main cast

Plot summary

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Main cast

Actor	Role
Charlton Heston	Richard "King" Howland
Yvette Mimieux	Sloan Howland
George Chakiris	Dr. Dean Kahana
France Nuyen	Mai Chen
James Darren	Paul Kahana
Aline MacMahon	Kappa Lani Kahana
Elizabeth Allan	Laura Beckett
Vaughn Taylor	Judge James Blanding
Philip Ahn	Mr. Immacona
Edward Mallory	Robert Parsons

Plot summary

Richard "King" Howland is a swaggering bigot land-baron living on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and does a spit take when his sister Sloan announces that she plans to marry Paul Kahana, a native Hawaiian. But in the meantime, Howland is having a torrid affair with Mai Chen. During Sloan and Paul's engagement party, Mai Chen's brother comes at Howland with a knife, but Paul intercedes and is killed. Bitter at Howland for Paul's death, Sloan runs off to Honolulu where she is taken in by Paul's brother Dean and his family.
Meanwhile, Mei Chen gives birth to Howland's child but dies during childbirth. Ever the rabid racist, Howland refuses the accept the child and Sloan takes it upon herself to care fop it. After an angry fight with Sloan and Dean, Howland is confronted with a personal dilemna — whether to continue on with his close-minded ways or to welcome his newborn son into his family.

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