screenshots / Nate and Hayes / 1983 Paramount Pictures Corporation

Taking place on the South Pacific islands in the 1800s, this swashbuckling adventure stars Tommy Lee Jones (The Missing) and Michael O'Keefe (Caddyshack).

Maori singer and actor Prince Tui Teka appears as the King of Ponape.

The production filmed on locations in both New Zealand and Fiji.

On Urupukapuka Island in the Bay of Islands of New Zealand a set reconstructing the Port of Samoa was built for the filming.

Released in Australia under the title Savage Islands.

Prince Tui Teka passed in 1985 at the age of 47.