Cinema: Never the Twain Shall Mate

Diamond Head. Don't go away. They got race trouble in Hawaii too. But there, of course, the law is enlightened, and the position of the colored man is quite different. When he gets involved with a white woman, he is not condemned to death by a hostile society. Oh no. He is destroyed by God.

It does seem hard to believe, but that's what happens in this picture. Based on a bestselling novel by Peter Gilman, it tells about a Hawaiian boy (James Darren) and a Chinese cutie (France Nuyen) who get biologically involved...

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