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thejab
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From: Forbidden Island, CA
|  Posted: 2007-01-29 1:52 pm
Last night at the San Franciso Film Noir Festival they showed Hell's Half Acre (1954), which is set on Oahu and features a plethora of Hawaiian scenes including tiki bar scenes, polynesian dance routines, scads of vintage aloha wear (in black and white), and even a polynesian/crime soundtrack. The fast paced music for the chase scenes was particularly memorable, as were the scenes with Marie Windsor. The technical advisor was Don the Beachcomber. It was a rare treat to see this movie from a 35mm print on the big screen at the Castro theater. The huge theater (1700 seats) was pretty well packed during the 6:00 showing.
They have this rare (never on VHS or DVD) film at Forbidden Island if you missed it last night.
And here are some previous posts on this movie:
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=17797&forum=1&hilite=Hell's%20Half%20Acre
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=17714&forum=1&hilite=Hell's%20Half%20Acre
A photographer from "Paris' biggest weekly entertainment magazine" was covering the Festival and took pictures of yours truly but I didn't catch the name of the magazine. Virani would you know the name?
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snackbar
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From: Grand Fenwick
| Posted: 2007-03-18 05:15 am
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On 2006-02-24 16:42, DawnTiki wrote:
Not a real old movie...
Envy....starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black and Christopher Walken....2004
Ben Stiller in a generic nothing interesting neighborhood bar. He asks the bartender to bring him something that people drink to get drunk. The bartender brings him a drink in a pineapple with lots of doohickeys and baubles in it and hanging on it.
Christopher Walken decides to start up a conversation with Ben Stiller, when Walken sits next to Stiller at the bar, sitting on the bar right in from of Walken is a ...volcano bowl...
Not terribly exciting, but it was there none the less.
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You missed the two tikis that hang on the wall behind Christopher Walken in the bar scene:
I also found the drink with the cheesy hulagirl quite funny:
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thejab
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From: Forbidden Island, CA
| Posted: 2009-01-06 3:16 pm
I was watching an old VHS tape of Hawaii 5-0 and in the second episode of the first season (Strangers in Our Own Land) there is a scene in a tiki bar / restaurant complete with a floor show and tikis here and there. Does anyone have the DVD of the show, and can post some stills of this scene? The episode dealt with native Hawaiians' loss of their land to development on Oahu.
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mrsmiley
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Posts: 2425
From: Las Vegas, NV
| Posted: 2009-02-22 9:50 pm
A search for "A Star is Born" with Janet Gaynor turned up nothing, so sorry if someone mentioned this before, but the 1937 version of this movie had a (pre)tiki bar scene near the beginning. The scene starts with a closeup of a bottle of Rum being poured into a shaker of milk and Andy Devine says something like "more rum, George, it dilutes the taste of milk". A little bamboo can be seen in the background and the obvious view of tapa cloth can be seen on the front of the bar that they are sitting at. 1937-wow!
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Mister Naufrago
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From: Spain
| Posted: 2009-08-24 12:12 pm
Not exactly a "scene".
This place can be spotted in "Doll Squad"/"Escuadron de muñecas" (1973)by no budget maestro Ted V. Mikels.
Can anybody identify the place?
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tikibars
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From: Aku Hall, Chicago
| Posted: 2009-09-28 2:11 pm
Just reviewed this wretchedly inept little indie film called The Commune for my weekly contribution to Film Threat (people are always surprised that film reviewers don't get to pick the movies we suffer through).
In the film, some cultish freaks have a religion that mixes Paganism, Egyptian mythology, A Mi-summer Night's Dream, Buddhism, and anything else the film-makers though might be scary to the religious right.... including a few passing references to menehunes.
In the film's final scene, one of the scary cult members waves this dangerous pagan ritual artifact in front of a baby, as the couple in the pic discuss the kid's (dubious) future.
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Haole'akamai
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From: The Polynesian Port of Oakland
| Posted: 2009-11-14 6:31 pm
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On 2004-11-02 17:39, vintagegirl wrote:
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On 2004-09-01 06:30, Johnny Dollar wrote:
we checked out the 1937 bing crosby film "waikiki wedding" last nite.
it was a really fun flick, lots of grass skirted natives pretty much 24-7 singing and luau-ing
there was also a musical number about hawaiian moonshine, i forget what the stuff itself was called. a pretty "drunky" number, it wouldn't pass hollywood muster today.
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Atomic Cocktail and I saw this over the summer and loved it as well. There's a big "native" dance number that's like Busby Berkeley goes Tiki.
As for the song that Martha Raye sings, it's a swing number called "Okolehao". Wish I could find the sheet music, but here's the lyrics at least. (And I think you can find it on CD):
OKOLEHAO
© 1937
Lyrics & Music: Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger, Don Hartman
Okolehao, okolehao
There's a man-made moonshine in Hawaii now
Okolehao hip-hip horray
After two sips your hips want to swing and sway.
When the gals begin to beg for just one more keg
The boys know what it means and they send for the marines.
Okolehao, I'm telling you
After one drink you'll think you're Hawaiian too.
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We just watched Waikiki Wedding and Martha Raye's Okolehao is really swingy and fun! Here's the clip on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1v9BZT1CPM
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thejab
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Posts: 2913
From: Forbidden Island, CA
| Posted: 2009-12-29 3:45 pm
In the noir "The Brothers Rico" (1957) there's a tiki on a dresser in the bedroom of main character Eddie Rico's house (he is played by Richard Conte). Much of the movie is set in Florida, with some good outdoor location shots and some gorgeous tropical modern interior spaces, especially the crime syndicate boss Sid Kubick's apartment. Not on video or DVD, but it showed on TCM recently.
Here's a clip that shows the tiki (at 2:00):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aiTjA5wgok
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