History of Movies Made in Hawaii
2003
50 FIRST KISSES; Columbia Pictures; Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore; Oahu.
THE HULK; Universal Pictures; Eric Bana; Maui.
EMBRACING MANA; Toho Films (Japan); Iayoko Kawahara; Big Island.
THE UNTITLED HAMBURG PROJECT; Universal Pictures; Ben Stiller, Debra
Messing; Oahu.
2002
THE BIG BOUNCE; Shangra-La Entertainment; Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman;
Oahu.
CHARLIE’S ANGELS II – FULL THROTTLE; Columbia Pictures; Cameron Diaz,
Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu; 2nd unit, Oahu.
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW; 20th Century Fox; Dennis Quaid; Big Island
HELLDORADO; Universal Pictures; Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Christopher
Walken; Oahu.
TEARS OF THE SUN (formerly the “Untitled Willis/Fuqua Project”); Revolution
Studios/Cheyenne Enterprises; Bruce Willis, Monica Belucci; Oahu, plate
shots on Kauai.
BLUE CRUSH; Universal Studios/Imagine Entertainment; Kate Bosworth, Faizon
Love; Oahu.
FINAL EXAM; Hawaii Filmwerks; Brent Huff, KariWuhrer; Big Island.
KAPU; Hawaii Filmwerks; Big Island
DIE ANOTHER DAY; 20TH James Bond film; MGM; Pierce Brosnan; opening
sequence; Maui.
2001
LILO & STITCH; Walt Disney Pictures; animated; voices of Daveigh Chase, Jason
Scott Lee; Tia Carrere; Kauai and Oahu.
THE TIME MACHINE; Dreamworks/WB; Guy Pearce; Kauai.
DRAGONFLY; NDE Productions; Kevin Costner; Kauai.
PLANET OF THE APES; 20th Century Fox; Mark Wahlberg; Big Island.
FINAL FANTASY; Columbia Pictures; computer animated; produced by Square USA;
Oahu.
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE; Revolution Studios; Adam Sandler; Oahu.
THE RIDE; Third Reef Pictures; Scot Davis, Sean Kaawa; Oahu.
2000
THE NIGHT MARCHERS; Cousins Brothers Productions; Blake and Brent Cousins;
Big Island.
THE TESTAMENTS (formerly titled Legacy II); Deseret Media; IMAX docudrama
for LDS; Kauai.
WAIKIKI: IN THE WAKE OF DREAMS; FilmWorks; documentary; Edgy Lee,
writer-producer.
JURASSIC PARK III; Universal/DreamWorks; Sam Niell, Tea Leoni; Kauai, Oahu,
Molokai.
WINDTALKERS; MGM; Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach; Oahu.
TO END ALL WARS; Argyll Film Partners; Keifer Sutherland; Kauai.
PEARL HARBOR; Jerry Bruckheimer/MichaelBay/Disney; Ben Affleck; Oahu.
1999
THE BIG SHOW; Cinequannon Prods.; Japanese musical by Shigeru Muroi; Oahu.
OFF THE LIP; Abandoned Pictures; Robert Michelson, pdcr/dir; Maui.
1998
MOLOKAI: The True Story of Father Damien; ERA Films (Belgium); David
Wenham and Peter O’Toole; Molokai & Oahu.
MOONGLOW; Latitude 20 Pictures; Joe Moore and Milo O’Shea; Oahu.
1997
PANIOLO O HAWAII, COWBOYS OF THE FAR WEST; FilmWorks; documentary;
Edgy Lee, writer-producer.
6 DAYS/7 NIGHTS; Touchstone Pictures; Harrison Ford and Anne Heche; Kauai.
DINOSAURS, Walt Disney Pictures; animated feature; Big Island, Maui and Kauai.
CITY OF ANGELS; Atlas Entertainment; Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan; Oahu.
RETURN TO SAVAGE BEACH, Skyhawk Films; Maui.
GODZILLA; TriStar Pictures; Matthew Broderick and Hank Azaria; Oahu.
LANI LOA--THE HEAVENLY PASSAGE; Chrome Dragon Films; Angus MacFadyen
and Ray Bumatai; Big Island.
SPHERE; Warner Bros., Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone; Oahu.
KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE; Touchstone Pictures; Richard Dreyfuss and Lily Tomlin;
Oahu and Big Island.
RACE TO THE VOLCANO; Angel Grove Productions; Mighty Morphin Power
Rangers; Maui.
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG; Walt Disney Pictures; Bill Paxton; Kauai and Oahu.
MEET...THE DEEDLES; Walt Disney Pictures; Dennis Hopper, Oahu.
1996
A VERY BRADY SEQUEL; Parmount Pictures; Shelley Long, Gary Cole, and Tim
Matheson; Oahu.
BEYOND PARADISE (originally titled KAMA'AINA); Brickwood Galuteria; Oahu
and Big Island.
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE; Walt Disney Pictures; Brendan Fraser and Leslie
Mann; Oahu and Kauai.
THE LOST WORLD; Universal Studios; Jeff Goldblum; Kauai.
IN GOD'S HANDS; Big Wave Productions, directed by Zalman King; Oahu & Maui.
GANG RELATED; Orion Pictures; Lela Rochon; Oahu.
1995
RACE THE SUN; Tri-Star/Sony; Jim Belushi, Halle Berry, Joseph Cho, Anthony
Ruivivar, Adriane Uganiza; Oahu.
THEN THERE WERE NONE; Hawaiian history documentary; Elizabeth Lindsey,
writer/producer.
1994
WATERWORLD; MCA/Universal City Studios; Kevin Costner and Jeanne
Tripplehorn; Big Island.
UNDER THE HULA MOON; Jersey Born Pictures; Stephen Baldwin, Emily Lloyd,
Chris Penn; Oahu.
OUTBREAK; Warner Brothers; Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman and Rene Russo;
Kauai.
BORN TO BE WILD; Fine Animal Productions/Warner Brothers; Helen Shaver, Peter
Boyle and Wil Horneff; Oahu.
DON JUAN DeMARCO; Juno Pictures; Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando and Faye
Dunaway; Oahu.
1993
NORTH; Rob Reiner - Castle Rock Pictures; Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Jason
Alexander, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Kauai.
AIRBORNE; Icon Productions; Marty Thomas, Shane McDermott and Seth Green;
Oahu.
EXIT TO EDEN; Savoy Pictures; Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Dan Aykroyd and
Rosie O'Donnell; Lanai.
PICTURE BRIDE; A Thousand Cranes Filmworks; Toshiro Mifune, Yuki Kudoh,
Akira Takayama, Tamlyn Tomita, and Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa; Oahu.
1992
NEMESIS; Greenleaf Productions; Oliver Gruner, Tim Thomerson and Cary
Hiroyuki-Tagawa; Big Island.
JURASSIC PARK; Steven Spielberg - Amblin Entertainment; Laura Dern, Jeff
Goldblum, Sam Neill and Sir Richard Attenborough; Kauai.
SLIVER; Paramount; Sharon Stone and William Baldwin; Big Island. (Hawaii
footage deleted in final edit.)
SURF NINJAS OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA; Katja Motion Picture Corp.; Oahu and
Maui.
1991
WIND; Filmlink International Zoetrope Studios; Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey and
Cliff Robertson; Oahu.
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS; CastleRock; James Caan, Sarah Jessica Parker and
Nicholas Cage; Kauai.
GOODBYE PARADISE; Latitude 20 Pictures; Joe Moore and Pat Morita; Oahu.
UNDER SIEGE; Steven Segal; Oahu.
HOOK; ILM; Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman and Julia Roberts; Kauai.
HARD HUNTED; November Down Company.
DO OR DIE; November Down Company/Malibu Bay Films; Drew Sidaris; Molokai.
1990
POINT BREAK; Largo Entertainment; Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves; Oahu.
HAWAII: BORN INTO PARADISE; Hawaii Research Productions; IMAX Film.
WISHMAN; Wishman Productions.
1989
SAVAGE BEACH; Sidaris Productions; Molokai.
FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER; Paramount; Willem Dafoe, Danny Glover and
Rosanna Arquette; Kauai.
LORD OF THE FLIES; Castle Rock Pictures; Kauai.
JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO; Warner Brothers; Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan; Oahu.
1988
FISTS OF STEEL; Sanford Entertainment; Carlos Palomino and Marianne Marks.
POLYNESIAN ODYSSEY; IMAX Films.
TRAVELS WITH SAZAE-SAN; Producer Kiyoshi Suzuki; Keiko Takeshita, Haruko
Kato and Midori Kuichi; Kauai.
1987
NORTH SHORE; Pipeline Productions; Gregory Harrison; Turtle Bay Hilton, Oahu.
THROW MAMA FROM THE TRAIN; Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal; Kauai.
FAREWELL TO THE KING; Orion pictures; Nick Nolte.
HAWAIIAN DREAM; New Century Producers (Japan).
PICASSO TRIGGER; Picasso Trigger (A. Sedaris); Molokai.
1986
ISLANDS OF THE ALIVE; Larco; Mike Moriarty; Kauai.
HARD TICKET TO HAWAII; Hard Ticket Company (A. Sedaris); Molokai.
1985
KARATE KID II; Columbia Pictures; Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio; Oahu.
BLACK WIDOW; 20th Century Fox; Debra Winger; Big Island.
1984
RADIOACTIVE DREAMS; Radioactive Dreams Productions, Inc.; Hawaii.
HANAUMA BAY; Hanauma Bay Productions; Oahu.
1983
UNCOMMON VALOR; Paramount Productions; Gene Hackman; Kauai.
BEHOLD HAWAII; MacGillivray-Freeman Productions; IMAX; Blaine Kia and
Kimo Kahoano; Kauai.
1981
BODY HEAT; Warner/Ladd; William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Richard Crenna;
Kauai.
BUDDY BUDDY; MGM; Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon; Oahu.
1980
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK; Lucas-Spielberg Productions; Harrison Ford; Kauai.
1979
THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED; Irwin Allen, Paul Newman and William Holden;
Big Island.
FINAL COUNTDOWN; UA; Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and Katherine Ross.
LAST FLIGHT OF NOAH'S ARK; Walt Disney; Elliot Gould and Ricky Schroeder;
Kauai.
"10"; Warner Brothers; Dudley Moore and Bo Derek; Oahu.
ROUGH CUT; Paramount/David Merrick; Burt Reynolds and David Niven.
1978
GOING COCONUTS; Donnie and Marie Osmond.
MAUI; feature film.
SEVEN; A. Sedaris Films; feature film.
INVITATION FROM BEACH; Japanese feature film.
1977
DAMIEN; PHA; Don Murray, Writer-director; Padre, Humberto Almazan; Oahu.
THE DEEP; Columbia/EMI; Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, and Robert Shaw.
ACAPULCO GOLD; Mar Vista; Marjoe Gortner; Robert Lansing and Ed Nelson;
Kauai.
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM; Connaught-Paramount; George C. Scott; Kauai.
1976
HOT LIPS AND INNER TUBES; Yuri Farrant; surfing movie.
MIDWAY; Universal; Charleton Heston, Henry Fonda and Toshiro Mifune.
KING KONG; Paramount-Dino DeLaurentis; Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges and Charles
Grodin; Napali, Kauai.
SUNDANCE; Carl Mastalka; surfing movie.
1975
ALOHA MEANS GOODBYE; James Franciscus and Sally Struthers; Oahu.
GOIN' SURFING; MacGillivray and Freeman; Oahu.
1974
CASTAWAY COWBOY; Buena Vista; James Garner and Vera Miles; Kauai.
HE IS MY BROTHER; Cinema Financial of America; Kathy Paulo and Bobby
Sherman.
1973
PAPILLON; Allied Artists; Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen; Maui.
1970
THE HAWAIIANS; United Artists; Charleton Heston; Maui and Kauai.
TORA! TORA! TORA!; 20th Century Fox; Jason Robards, Martin Balsam and Joseph
Cotton; Oahu.
1968
LOST FLIGHT; Universal Studios; Billy Dee Williams; Lloyd Bridges and Anne
Francis; Kauai.
KONA COAST; Warner Brothers; Richard Boone and Vera Miles.
YOAKE NO FUTARI (Rainbow over the Pacific, in Japanese); Shochiku Yukio;
Kauai.
LOVERS AT DAWN; Mirisch Productions; (in Japanese); Kauai.
1967
BIKINIS IN PARADISE; Cinema 3; local cast.
HAWAII NO IKIRU (Life in Hawaii, in Japanese).
1966
LT. ROBIN CRUSOE, USN.; Buena Vista; Dick Van Dyke, Nancy Kwan; Kauai.
HAWAII ESCAPADE; Tiare Wood.
TIKO AND THE SHARK; MGM; Marlene Among and Al Kaue.
PARADISE, HAWAIIAN STYLE; Paramount; Elvis Presley; Oahu.
THE ENDLESS SUMMER; Bruce Brown; documentary; Oahu.
HAWAII; United Artists; Julie Andrews and Max von Sydow; Oahu and Kauai.
1965
NONE BUT THE BRAVE; Warner Brothers; Frank Sinatra and Clint Walker; Kauai.
IN HARM'S WAY; Paramount; John Wayne and Kirk Douglas; Oahu.
OPERATION ATTACK; Selmur Production; Kauai.
ALOHA; Lea Productions; Amalia Fuentes and Romeo Vasques; (in Tagalog).
1964
RIDE THE WILD SURF; Columbia; Fabian, Tab Hunter, Shelly Fabares; Oahu.
1963
DIAMOND HEAD; Columbia; Charlton Heston; Big Island and Kauai.
HONOLULU-TOKYO-HONG KONG
GILLIGAN'S TRAVEL; United Artists; Bob Denver; Jim Backus; Kauai.
YOUNG GUY IN HAWAII (HAWAII NO WAKADAISHO); (in Japanese).
DONOVAN'S REEF; Paramount; John Wayne; Kauai.
THREE GENTS IN HAWAII
UNLUCKY LUCK
ALOHA, THREE GENTS
RAMPAGE; Warner Brothers; Robert Mitchum; Big Island.
1962
SANGA ARI; Shochiku; Hideko Takamine; (in Japanese).
GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!; Paramount; Elvis Presley; Oahu.
1961
SLIPPERY WHEN WET
GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN; Columbia; James Darren.
SEVEN WOMEN FROM HELL; 20th Century Fox; Denise Darcel; Kauai.
BLUE HAWAII; Paramount; Elvis Presley; Kauai and Oahu.
DEVIL AT FOUR O'CLOCK; Columbia; Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra; Maui.
1960
WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY; Columbia; Jack Lemmon; Ricky Nelson; Kauai.
1958
SOUTH PACIFIC; 20th Century Fox; Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor; Kauai.
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA; Warner Bros; Spencer Tracy; Big Island; Oahu.
TWILIGHT FOR THE GODS; Universal; Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse; Maui and
Oahu.
SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE; Stanley Warner Cinema; travelogue; Waikiki, Oahu.
SURF SAFARI
SHE GODS OF SHARK REEF; American International; Don Durant and Lisa
Montell; Kauai.
GHOST OF THE CHINA SEA; Columbia; David Brian.
1957
THE ENEMY BELOW; 20th Century Fox; Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens.
FORBIDDEN ISLAND; Columbia; John Hall; Kauai.
NAKED PARADISE; American International Pictures and Sunset Producitons;
Richard Denning, Beverly Garland and Lisa Montell; Kauai.
VOODOO ISLAND; United Artists; Boris Karloff and Beverly Tyler; Kauai.
JUNGLE HEAT; Bel-Air/United Artists; Lex Barker and Mari Blanchard; Kauai.
1956
THE REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER; 20th Century Fox; Jane Russell and Richard
Egan; Oahu.
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL; 20th Century Fox; Robert Wagner, Terry Moore,
Broderick Crawford and Buddy Ebsen; Kauai.
THE LIEUTENANT WORE SKIRTS; 20th Century Fox; Tom Ewell, Sheree North
and Rita Moreno; Oahu.
FLIGHT TO HONG KONG; United Artists; Rory Calhoun and Dolores Donlon;
Oahu.
BEACH HEAD; Audrey Schenck Production; Tony Curtis; Kauai.
1955
MR. ROBERTS; Warner Brothers; Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon and James Cagney;
Oahu.
THE SEA CHASE; Warner Brothers; John Wayne and Laura Turner; Big Island.
UNDERWATER; RKO-Radio; Jane Russell and Gilbert Roland; Big Island and Oahu.
THE ETERNAL SEA; Republic; Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger and Alexis Smith;
Pearl Harbor, Oahu.
1954
THE CAINE MUTINY; Columbia Pictures; Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Fred
MacMurray and Jose Ferrer; (aboard ship).
MISS SADIE THOMPSON; Columbia Pictures; Rita Hayworth and Jose Ferrer;
Kauai.
HELL'S HALF ACRE; Republic; Wendall Corey; Evelyn Keyes and Elsa Lanchester;
Oahu.
THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY; Warner Brothers; John Wayne, Robert Stack and
Claire Trevor.
HAWAII CHINDOCHU (UNUSUAL TRIP TO HAWAII); Sadao Sugihara/Shintoku
Studio; Chiemi Eri, Yoshio Tabata, Shunji Sakai; Oahu and Kauai.
1953
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY; Columbia Pictures; Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra,
Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed; Oahu.
HAWAII NO YORU (HAWAIIAN NIGHT); Shintoho; Koji Tsuruta, Keiko Kishi;
Oahu; Neighbor Islands.
1952
BIG JIM McLAIN; Warner Brothers; John Wayne and James Arness; Oahu.
1951
BIRD OF PARADISE; 20th Century Fox; Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget and Louis
Jordan; Big Island, Oahu and Kauai.
OPERATION PACIFIC; Warner Brothers; John Wayne and Patricia Neal; Oahu.
1950
PAGAN LOVE SONG; MGM; Esther Williams and Howard Keel; Kauai.
DAMIEN; Hawaiian Productions, Ltd.; Russell Collins; Molokai and Oahu.
1948
MILLION DOLLAR WEEKEND; Eagle-Lion; Gene Raymond and Francis Lederer.
1945
HAWAIIAN MEMORIES; Bud Browne, producer.
1943
THE BIG SURF; Bud Browne, producer.
1942
SONG OF THE ISLANDS; 20th Century Fox; Betty Grable, Victor Mature and Jack
Oakie; Big Island.
1940
SOUTH OF PAGO PAGO; United Artists; Victor McLagen and Frances Farmer; Big
Island.
KARAYO; (in Ilocano); Katy Evangelio and Faustino Gambra; Oahu.
LINGLINGAY; Madolora Cabalora Amusements; Max Velasco, FelisaCatalona, Rose
Labrador. (Musical)
1938
HAWAII CALLS; RKO; Bobby Breen; Maui and Oahu.
HAWAIIAN BUCKAROO; 20th Century Fox; Smith Ballew and Evalyn Knapp;
Parker Ranch, Big Island.
1937
WAIKIKI WEDDING; Paramount; Bing Crosby, Martha Raye and Anthony Quinn,
Oahu.
LOVERS IN HAWAII'S PARADISE; Hoshi Reiko, Sugi Kyoji, Shima Koji
1935
NAVY WIFE; 20th Century Fox; Claire Trevor and Ralph Bellamy; Oahu.
CURLY TOP; Shirley Temple.
1934
FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE; Paramount; Claudette Colbert and Herbert
Marshall; Big Island.
1933
HELL BELOW; MGM; Robert Montgomery, Walt Huston and Jimmy Durante; Pearl
Harbor, Oahu.
WHITE HEAT; Seven Seas (J.D. Trop); Virginia Cherrill, Mona Maris, Hardie
Albright, David Newell; Kauai.
1932
BIRD OF PARADISE; RKO; Dolores Del Rio and Joel McCrea; Oahu.
1931
THE BLACK CAMEL; 20th Century Fox; Warner Oland, Bela Lugosi and Robert
Young; Oahu.
1930
FEET FIRST; Paramount; Harold Lloyd and Barbara Kent; Oahu.
ALOHA HAWAII; Lawrence Barber, Libby Keanini, Winona Love; Big Island and
Oahu.
1929
HIS CAPTIVE WOMAN; First National Pictures; Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill;
Big Island.
THE KAMAAINA; Junior League of Honolulu; Kinau Wilder McVay, Jack Walker
and Harold Dillingham; Oahu.
1925
DANGEROUS INNOCENCE; Universal; Laura La Plante and Jean Heersholt.
1923
VENGEANCE OF THE DEEP; American Releasing Corp.; Richard Arlen; Oahu.
THE WHITE FLOWER; Famous Players-Lasky; Betty Compsen and Edmund Lowe;
Big Island and Oahu.
1922
THE BONDED WOMAN; Paramount; Betty Compson, John Boles, Richard Dix.
1921
PASSION FRUIT; Metro Studio; Doraldina, Edward Earle, Stuart Holmes; Oahu.
THE BLACK LILY; Hawaiian Motion Picture Co.; Peggy Aldrich and J.J. Banks;
Oahu.
1919
A FALLEN IDOL; Fox; Evelyn Nesbit, Thelma Parker.
1918
THE HIDDEN PEARLS; Paramount; Sessue Hayakawa; Big Island and Oahu.
1916
KAOLULOLANI; Aloha Film Co.; Ned Steel and Helen Holmes.
1914
THE NATION'S PERIL; William Crawford and Marie Walcamp; Oahu.
1913
HAWAIIAN LOVE and THE SHARK GOD; Universal; Virginia Brissac and James
Dillon; two 1-reelers; first Hollywood production in Hawaii; Oahu.
