The Hawaiians (1970)

Geraldine Chaplin: Purity Hoxworth

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• Whip Hoxworth : Purity. What are you doing?

  Purity Hoxworth : Thinking back a thousand years or so. Thinking of the first canoes that came up all the way from Bora Bora. Why did our people come here, Whip?

  Whip Hoxworth : Our people? A little Hawaiian blood doesn't make us natives.

  Purity Hoxworth : It does if we want it to. There was no one here and they came thousands of miles. Who knows how many lives were lost in those little canoes. The missionaries, the whalers, the Chinese, it was easy for them. But not for our people. They were magnificent, Whip.

• Whip Hoxworth : Purity! Purity!

  Purity Hoxworth : Whip!

• Purity Hoxworth : Whip, we could sell the house. Yes, we could sell the house and - just live. We don't need money. We could live the way our ancestors lived.

  Whip Hoxworth : In a grass hut, on fish and poi?

  Purity Hoxworth : Yes! Listen...

  Whip Hoxworth : Purity, you didn't marry some kanaka. You married me.

• Whip Hoxworth : I can't understand you. How could I? You haven't let me in your bed for six months.

  Purity Hoxworth : No. Whip. Whip, please.