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Hawaii Calls (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Hawaii Calls' is a 1938 American film directed by Edward F. Cline, produced by Sol Lesser Productions and Bobby Breen Productions, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
Cast
*Bobby Breen as Billy Coulter
*Ned Sparks as Strings
*Irvin S. Cobb as Captain O'Hare
*Warren Hull as Commander Milburn
*Gloria Holden as Mrs. Milburn
*Juanita Quigley as Doris Milburn
*Mamo Clark as Hina
*Pua Lani as Pua
*Raymond Paige as Himself
*Herbert Rawlinson as Harlow
*Dora Clement as Mrs. Harlow
*Philip Ahn as Julius
*Donald Kirke as Regon
*William Abbey as Lonzo
*Ward Bond as Muller
*Birdie De Bolt as Aunty Pinau
*Laurence Duran as Banana
*William Harrigan as Blake
*Ruben Maldonado as Solly
*Aggie Auld as Hula Dancer
*Cy Kendall as Hawaiian Policeman
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PLOT SYNOPSIS:
Self-sufficient orphan boy Billy Coulter(Breen) stows away on a Hawaii-bound ocean liner for the adventure of it.
He instantly makes a host of new friends---including two well known screen sourpussesShip's Captain Irwin Cobb
(more famous as a newspaper humor columnist than an actor);and ship's musician "Strings"(Ned Sparks);who claims to
play "The Bulgarian Banjo".
Billy eventually ends up being adopted by naval Commander Milburn and family.
While the film is cheaply produced,there is genuine effort to present actual Hawaiian culture.
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Soundtrack
* Bobby Breen "Down Where the Trade Winds Blow" (Written by Harry Owens)
* Bobby Breen "Hawaii Calls" (Written by Harry Owens)
* Bobby Breen "That's the Hawaiian in Me" (Written by Johnny Noble and Margarita Lake)
* "Espaa" (Music by Emmanuel Chabrier)
* "Macushla" (Words by Josephine V. Rowe, music by Dermot Macmurrough)
* "Song Of The Islands (Na Lei O Hawaii)" (Words and Music by Charles E. King)
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