Hawaii

James Michener's novel reaches the screen.

A sweeping historical drama about cultural collision and moral rigidity, centered on a missionary's marriage and faith tested against an island paradise.

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.