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Based on the the real life Massie Affair.

They should be hailed as heroes. Instead, they became the accused. Four young Hawaiian men who find a beaten and raped nude Caucasian woman and rush her to a Honolulu hospital are the defendants in a heated trial that underscores the divide between locals and powerful, plantation-running white of 1937 Hawaii. Working from his own bestselling novel, Norman Katkov provides the script for this miniseries tale of twisted justice and deadly vengeance. As the investigating police captain who swims against the tide of racism and rancor surrounding the case, Kris Kristofferson leads a notable cast that includes Jane Alexander, Sean Young, Jose Ferrer, James Saito, and Madeline Stowe.

The year is 1937, on the tropical island of Hawaii. A navy wife is brutally beaten and left lying naked on the beach. Her wealthy and influential mother (Jane Alexander) cannot face the truth of her daughter's tragedy, and so, four Hawaiian boys are accused. Police Captain Curt Maddox (Kris Kristofferson) is determined to solve the case. However, he doesn't take into account the racial tension which exists between the resident Americans and the Hawaiians. It takes a cynical manipulation of justice, a murder and the hidden menace of the islanders, to bring this tense and passionate drama to a shattering conclusion.

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Kris Kristofferson as Detective Captain Curtis "Curt" Maddox, HPD
Jane Alexander as Doris Ashley
Sean Young as Leonore Bergmann (Walter Bergmann's wife)
Jose Ferrer as Walter Bergmann, counsellor-at-law
Susan Blakely as Marie Farrell
David Clennon as Philip Murray
George Coe as Dr. Lansing (who examines Hester)
Richard Dysart as Harvey Koster
Elizabeth Lindsey as Sarah
Haunani Minne as Princess Luahine (presumably a member of the deposed royal house of Hawaii, she breaks her self-imposed isolation to take up the cause of the four Hawaiians who are so ill-used by the haole community)
William Russ as Lieutenant Lloyd Murdoch USN
James Saito as Halehone (the Hawaiian lawyer who represents the accused men)
Matt Salinger as Bryce Parker
Madeleine Stowe as Hester Ashley Murdoch (Lloyd's wife)
Arthur Rosenberg as Sergeant Jack Keller
Sandy McPeak as Rear Admiral Glenn Langon, USN, (the 14th Naval District commandant)