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From:Julie Andrews , Max von Sydow , Richard Harris , Gene Hackman , Carroll O'Connor , TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT , George Roy Hill , MGM (Video & DVD) ,
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1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Please Release Full Version on DVD, 2008-08-19
I don't like abridged novels and films that are chopped to pieces are in the same category. This shortened version lacks the depth of the original full version film. The full version film should be considered an all time classic.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Hawaii, the Destruction of An Epic, 2008-07-08
The complete uncut original version of this film is one of my favorites as it was for my late mother. I feel it was one of the greatest film epics Hollywood had produced. The acting was superb. Max Von Sydow is my favorite actor. Julie Andrews was magnificent as well as a little known actress named Jocelyn Lagarde who played the Ali Nui, in fact she was nominated for an academy award. I met Manu Tupou who played Keoki and thanked him for his excellent portrayal.
The marriage of film music with the movie by the late Elmer Bernstein was film scoring at its finest. The cinematography was breath taking and the screenplay was witty and engaging. The story albeit a shorter adaption of the mamoth Michener epic novel was nonetheless very poignant. I have the full VHS version. This film was not too long in my book! Why did MGM butcher the DVD version? Is there a way that Amazon can press the powers that be for a complte version of a much maligned masterpiece on DVD?
 Excellent Movie , 2008-05-27
I saw this movie years ago growing up in Hawaii. I could not wait to purchase it so I could see it again. Paradise truly was ruined....
 Hawaii, 2008-02-24
Max von Sydow pops up again in this story of missionaries who went to Hawaii in the 1820s. It is really the story of his wife, Jerusha, who pines away in the island paradise. Von Sydow took a similar role in The Emigrants, a film in which he again uproots his wife only to see her disintegrate. Von Sydow the missionary is unyielding and out-of-touch. Themes are typical. We watch native Hawaiians suffer as a result of contact with Europeans. I rented this film when I decided to go to Hawaii.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Too much footage lost on the DVD, 2008-01-21
I have been a fan of this movie for years. I owned the 2 tape VHS version and was so happy when it was finally released on disc. For those who have never seen the film, this version will certainly suffice and Julie Andrews is irresistable. However - I was very disappointed to see how much of the original was cut. Interesting and important scenes are left out - Jerusha on her wedding day bidding her sister farewell - scenes aboard ship and when Abner was ill from the shark bite. Scenes that may not have been ultimately necessary to the plot, but leave spaces in the general storyline when left out. Had I known that so much was missing, I would never have gotten rid of my VHS tapes. I would say if you have the means to play them, buy the tapes instead.
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