Richard "King" Howland is a swaggering land baron living on the Big Island of Hawaii. He objects when his sister, … See more

Clark Gable was originally slated for Heston's role but died before production began. " I suppose every studio in town had projects waiting for Gable," Heston wrote in his memoirs. "Had he lived to do the film, he would h… See more

Heston wrote in 1996 "The film turned out to be outrageously successful; I still get checks. I haven’t seen it in a number of years; I’m not sure how good I thought it really was, though it did serve to show again that … See more