Blood & Orchids (1986)

Directors

Jerry Thorpe

Cast

Jane Alexander, José Ferrer, Kris Kristofferson, Madeleine Stowe, Sean Young

The story

In Hawaii in 1937, four young men find a white woman, beaten nearly to death, and take her to a hospital, only to be charged later with her rape and assault. During their trial, the woman's husband, a lieutenant in the US Navy, fatally shoots one of them and later stands trial himself. The trial brings into stark relief the racial tensions that tear at the social fabric of Territorial Hawaii in the years prior to World War II.

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