Nate and Hayes
| Nate and Hayes / Savage Islands | |
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| Directed by | Ferdinand Fairfax |
| Produced by |
Lloyd Phillips Rob Whitehouse |
| Written by |
John Hughes David Odell |
| Based on | story by David Odell |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Trevor Jones |
| Cinematography | Tony Imi |
| Edited by | John Shirley |
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Production
company |
Phillips-Whitehouse Productions
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release date
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18 November 1983 |
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Running time
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96 Minutes |
| Country |
United States New Zealand Fiji |
| Budget | NZ$7.5 million |
| Box office | $1.9 million (domestic) |
Nate and Hayes, also known as Savage Islands (UK title), is a 1983 swashbuckling adventure film set in the South Pacific in the late 19th century. Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and filmed on location in Fiji and New Zealand, it starred Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe and Jenny Seagrove.
This was one of many early 1980s films designed to capitalize on the popularity of Lucas and Spielberg's hero, Indiana Jones, but Nate and Hayes was a flop at the box office. This contributed to the long held belief in Hollywood that pirate swashbucklers were box office poison, a belief not laid to rest until the 2003 release of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Sir Richard Taylor of Weta Workshop said Savage Islands kick-started the New Zealand filmmaking boom of the 1980s.
The film tells the story of missionary Nathaniel "Nate" Williamson, taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie. Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish William "Bully" Hayes, who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease, "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her.
The plot is essentially a set-up for a rousing series of Indiana Jones style action set pieces, including a sequence on a suspension bridge which greatly resembles the climax of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, though notably Nate and Hayes was released a year earlier.
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