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Blood & Orchids is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jerry Thorpe released in USA on 23 february 1986 with Kris Kristofferson
Blood & Orchids (1986)
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Add to a movie listBlood & Orchids is a 1986 made-for-TV crime-drama film. Written for the screen by Norman Katkov, it was an adaptation of Katkov's own novel which, in turn, was inspired by the 1932 Massie Trial in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was typical of many crime dramas produced during the period.
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In 1937 Hawaii, four native Hawaiian 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.Actors
Kris Kristofferson
(Capt. Curtis 'Curt' Maddox)
Jane Alexander
(Doris Ashley)
Madeleine Stowe
(Hester Ashley Murdoch)
José Ferrer
(Walter Bergman)
Sean Young
(Leonore Bergman)
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