Blood & Orchids is a 1986 made-for-TV crime-drama film inspired by the 1932 Massie Trial in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was typical of many crime dramas produced during the period.
This film was nominated for two awards, including one Emmy Award for costuming and an Artios Award for casting.
In 1937 Hawaii, four Hawaiian-native men find a white woman, beaten nearly to death, and take her to a hospital--only to be charged later with her rape and assault....
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Blood & Orchids is a 1986 made-for-TV crime-drama film inspired by the 1932 Massie Trial in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was typical of many crime dramas produced during the period.
This film was nominated for two awards, including one Emmy Award for costuming and an Artios Award for casting.
In 1937 Hawaii, four Hawaiian-native men find a white woman, beaten nearly to death, and take her to a hospital--only to be charged later with her rape and assault. During their trial, the woman's husband, a Lieutenant in the US Navy, shoots one of them to death and later stands trial himself. The trial brings into stark relief the racial tensions that tear at the social fabric of Territorial Hawaii in the years prior to World War II.
In 1937 Hawaii, socialite Hester Ashley Murdoch (Madeline Stowe) leaves a dinner party for officers at the US Naval base in Honolulu in the company of a man who is not her husband (Lieutenant Lloyd Murdoch, played by William Russ), but rather Lt. Murdoch's best friend. The...
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