Tamahine

Tamahine
220px 1963 Theatrical Poster
Directed by	Philip Leacock
Produced by	John Bryan
Written by	Denis Cannan
Starring	Nancy Kwan John Fraser Dennis Price
Music by	Malcolm Arnold
Cinematography	Geoffrey Unsworth
Edited by	Peter Tanner
Production company	Associated British Picture Corporation & Seven Arts
Distributed by	Warner-Pathé Distributors (UK) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US)
Release dates	18 July 1963 (1963-07-18) (London)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Tamahine is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Nancy Kwan, Dennis Price and John Fraser. It is a film about a Polynesian woman who believes she can change the culture of Hallow School, a British boys' boarding school. The story was filmed at a real boys' boarding school, Wellington College in England.

The film had its World Premiere on 18 July 1963 at the Empire, Leicester Square in London's West End.

Plot

When her father dies, orphan teenager Tamahine (Nancy Kwan) is sent from her South Pacific island home to live with Charles Poole (Dennis Price), her father's cousin and the headmaster of Hallow, a prestigious all-male English school. Richard (John Fraser), Charles' son and school student, falls in love with her, but she considers him tabu because of the closeness of their family relationship. Another suitor is the art master, Clove (Derek Nimmo), after he breaks up with Charles' daughter Diana (Justine Lord).

Meanwhile, Tamahine has trouble adjusting to the puzzling social mores of her new home, exasperating Charles, but also making him start to question his own joyless existence. In the end, Richard convinces Tamahine that marrying him does not violate English tabus, while Clove resigns to go paint in a foreign land, accompanied by Diana. The film leaps ahead several years, showing a scruffily bearded Charles enjoying life on Tamahine's island, while Richard takes his place as headmaster, watched by Tamahine and their children.

Cast

• Nancy Kwan as Tamahine
• John Fraser as Richard Poole
• Dennis Price as Charles Poole
• Coral Browne as Mme. Becque, a former lover of Tamahine's father whom Tamahine visits on her way to England
• Dick Bentley as Storekeeper
• Derek Nimmo as Clove
• Justine Lord as Diana
• James Fox as Oliver, a schoolmate of Charles
• Michael Gough as Cartwright
• Allan Cuthbertson as Housemaster
• Howard Marion-Crawford as Housemaster
• William Mervyn as Lord Birchester
• Robin Stewart as Fiend

External links

• Tamahine at IMDb