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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Feb 3, 2005 3:29 PM Ach Benz, I just love your Moko heads! I wish I could collect them all and line them up on a miniature skull rack as trophies! They always remind me of Queequeg in John Huston's "Moby Dick", (although I presume he was supposed to be not a Maori, but a Marquesan warrior). Seeing the film as a boy, I just thought Queequeg was sooo cool, I wanted to be like him! The actor who played Queequeg was actually an Austrian Baron (!), Friedrich Ledebur, and he also played Melville's Marquesan sidekick Kory Kory in the 1958 "Enchanted Island", and a native in "Voodoo Island" (1957), for which Les Baxter wrote the music... ...more on that in my book on Tiki Movies, which is currently book project #4 on my list :) [ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-02-03 15:32 ]

Ach Benz, I just love your Moko heads! I wish I could collect them all and line them up on a miniature skull rack as trophies!

They always remind me of Queequeg in John Huston's "Moby Dick", (although I presume he was supposed to be not a Maori, but a Marquesan warrior). Seeing the film as a boy, I just thought Queequeg was sooo cool, I wanted to be like him!

The actor who played Queequeg was actually an Austrian Baron (!), Friedrich Ledebur, and he also played Melville's Marquesan sidekick Kory Kory in the 1958 "Enchanted Island", and a native in "Voodoo Island" (1957), for which Les Baxter wrote the music...

...more on that in my book on Tiki Movies, which is currently book project #4 on my list :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-02-03 15:32 ]

Post #139208 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Feb 3, 2005 3:29 PM