The idea for high adventure came to Jack London (1876-1916) and his wife, Charmian, almost as a lark while swimming in their pool in Glen Ellen, California—but it wasn’t a hard sell. He had been batting the idea around in his head for the better part of a decade, and, as an adrenaline junkie by…
Most of us love the idea of islands—their beauty, their singularity, their separation from the wider world. And, of course, we all believe that life may somehow be easier on islands, more laid back, simpler, even Edenic. But islands have their dark side, too. And just as most of us are drawn to the mythic…
The opening credits begin with shots of sunny beaches scored with some generic Hawaiian music, but then the credits end and the sunlit scenes dissolve into the same beaches at night. That’s when the noir starts kicking in. At a nightclub in Honolulu, a pretty girl and a man with a scar on his face…
