vivscripts I loved this movie!!!!! Charlton Heston (King) as the bigoted brother or Yvette Mimieux (Sloane)was superb. The story still has relevance. There is racism on both sides of the fence. Throw in a triangle of James Darren (Paul) brother to George Chakiris (Dean) and you have a very entertaining movie. Super hot chemistry between Chakiris and Mimieux. Some didn't like the cast. I don't have a problem with it, just as long as the acting is good. I even liked the supporting players like France Nyugen as the beautiful but doomed Mai Chen and Philip Ahn as the police inspector. But I have to say the script stank to high heaven. The dialogue was line after line of what I can only think the writer thought was catch phrases. Margaurite Roberts wrote a lot of old westerns. The dialogue would have been perfect for a campy old western but for a modern day setting it was only a distraction from what should have been a very important story line. For instance... "My brother knows you were born to the purple, but he doesn't know how much you like to wear it." and how can I forget... "Look, I hit you and I'm sorry. It's been hurting ever since."????? Did she really think this was cool, or that real people talk to each other this way. I love the movie, but the script? PLEASE!!!!! Maybe this movie could be redone. Anyway script problems and all I still love the movie.

bombersflyup Diamond Head was a so so to reasonable film about power and mixed marriage, but nothing special. I did not care for any character in this film. Richard is suppose to be unlikable, but Sloane isn't much better, she will basically have anyone who will jump into the water with her. Jumping from one brother to the next. Sloane: Feel? That's just it, I don't feel. Anything. Paul must of loved me and all I felt was a blank. I don't know how to love. Then she gets with Dean after telling him this. This is a romance?? There was no chemistry between anyone. It was an interesting and engaging enough film though.

williwaw Columbia Pictures retained the services of expert director Guy Green who had directed a beautiful movie at MGM Light In The Piazza and cast the leading lady of that film Yvette Mimieux on a loan out from her studio MGM as the above the title star of Diamond Head. Co starring in this romantic film set in Hawaii is rugged Charlton Heston and George Chakiris -who won an Oscar for West Side Story -as the romantic interest for Ms. Mimieux. Not sure what is more beautiful the scenery of Hawaii or Yvette Mimieux. Columbia also cast James Darren a Columbia pictures contract star in the film as well. I enjoyed this escapist and beautifully filmed movie. Btw Ms. Mimieux would return to MGM for a few more movies including her hit Joy In The Morning co starring with Richard Chamberlain and then retired.

Bogmeister The title sounds like some James Bond-type adventure but it's typical melodrama circa 1959 in Hawaii (Heston would return to the locale in an earlier century in "The Hawaiians" in '70). Heston's character hearkens back to his rich landowner of "The Naked Jungle"(54), so it's as if the same character is a decade older. The theme of race relations (white vs. brown here) is played over the plot in a ham-handed manner, though a couple of characters get to voice an almost-profound observation regarding no 'pure-bred' people existing in some future generation. Heston's character, though predictably arrogant & stubborn, starts out as a fairly liberal easygoing chap for a powerful rich white man of the time but quickly learns he can't apply those nice attitudes when it hits close to home: his sister (Mimieux) plans to marry a Hawaiian (Darren) and Heston won't have it.There follows a hint of incestuous undertones and, at some point, it almost looks like Heston plans to marry his sister himself to keep things 'all in the family' - an obsession he reveals as the story progresses. But this is over 40 years ago and nothing goes beyond just some cheap suggestion and titillating the dirty minds of some audience members. By the end, we realize it's the often-used saying of 'money can't buy happiness' which prevails over the sometimes maudlin scenery-chewing. Speaking of scenery, though, the landscapes of Hawaii are very nice here, especially on a widescreen DVD version. And Heston shows why he's a bigger star than the rest of the cast, but the story itself is pretty much forgettable and uninspired.