Blood and Orchids
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Kris Kristofferson
Jane Alexander
Sean Young
Jose Ferrer
Susan Blakely
David Clennon
Film Details
Synopsis
This fictional melodrama about a '30s rape-assault trial in Hawaii, intertwined with prejudice and corruption among the Island's establishment, with subplots involving a Hawaiian princess and an unassuming native lawyer-with-a-future, was based on Norman Katkov's best-selling novel which he (and, according to initial press releases, Steve Shagan) turned into a four-hour teleplay.
Katkov's book seemingly was inspired by the notorious Massie case that occurred in Honolulu in 1931. Kris Kristofferson is the unusually laid-back cop on the case; Jane Alexander the Grande Dame who coerces her unfaithful Navy wife daughter to point the finger at four local youths after the girl is raped and beaten by her lover; Jose Ferrer is the high-toned lawyer from the mainland brought in to prosecute the case, and Sean Young is Ferrer's young wife who has a fling with Kristofferson. An Emmy Award nomination went to the costumers of part one.
Cast
Kris Kristofferson
Jane Alexander
Sean Young
Jose Ferrer
Susan Blakely
David Clennon
George Coe
Richard Dysart
Elizabeth Lindsey
Haunani Minn
William Russ
James Saito
Matt Salinger
Madeleine Stowe
Arthur Rosenberg
Merritt Butrick
Sandy Mcpeak
Henry K Bal
Robert Andre
Warren Fabro
Shaun Shimoda
Russell Omori
George O'hanlon
Clarence Felder
Don Nahuku
Ben Wong
Joyce Maltby
Ray Bumatai
Glenn E Crane
Robert Harker
Marika Yamato
Prescott Ogle
Bill Edwards
Michael W Perry
Michael Cowell
Todd Camenson
Hank Lindsley
Terry Cook
Jerry Harpin
David Cohen
Andy Dupree
Don Lamond
Mieko Hasegawa
Bob Fimiani
Dorothy Roberts
Rudolph Abel
Merlin Ching
Moe Keale
Phill Upton
Sol K Bright
Fred Ball
Reginald F H Ho
Clay Wai
Rodney Philip Aiu
David Palmer
David Traylor
Jim Hutchison
Clint Marantz
Crew
Andrew Adelson
Marv Adelson
Chuck Arnold
Louise Clark
Lori Jane Coleman
James R. Dyer
Cariline Dyer-davis
Pamela Eilerson
David Franco
Kim C Friese
Melinda Gartzman
Buck Henshaw
Fredric P Hope
Ken S Johnson
Norman Katkov
Norman Katkov
Joe Kenworthy
Barbara Lampson
Joe Mckinney
Patrick R Norris
Sharlene Rassi
Mark Snow
Stephanie Gardiner Spangler
Malcolm Stuart
Edward Ternes
Tom Tomlinson
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Aired in United States February 23, 1986
Aired in United States February 24, 1986
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