History Film / NateAndHayes

%%* NiceHat: Both Bully's and Ben's crew has these.

* MoralDissonance: After saving Sophie, Nathaniel doesn't give a thought about the Wakayans that were sold to slavery in Samoa.

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%%* ManInWhite: The uniforms of the imperial Germans. Bully also wears a white outfit for half of the film.

* ArmsDealer: Bully is working as one in the opening of the film, trying to sell rifles to an anti-colonialist island tribe.

* CannibalTribe: King Oatapi's people on the island of Ponape.
* CoolShip: Count von Rittenberg's small steam-powered gunboat.

* EvilColonialist: The South Pacific slave trader Ben Pease, and, to a lesser extent, the German navy personnel who employ him in order to use slave labour to establish island coaling stations for their navy.
* EyepatchOfPower: One of von Rittenberg's men has it.
* {{Flynning}}: Prevalent when Bully's crew boards the German gunboat and starts fighting its crew.

* GroinAttack: The reason why Ben hates Bully so much is because he got shot in the balls by him when they got into a fight over a woman.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The fate of the German gunboat that nearly stops our heroes from leaving Ponape, as our heroes set it to blow up by one of its own shells.

* HumanSacrifice: Ben delivers Sophie to the cannibals of Ponape for this use to sweeten the deal between them and the Germans.

* ImprovisedWeapon: During the gunboat raid, everyone else is {{Flynning}} while Sophie defends herself with a lifebelt.

* LoveTriangle: A non-contentious one among Sophie, Nate, and Bully, resolved fairly early and not causing any open conflict.
* ManInWhite: The uniforms of the imperial Germans. Bully also wears a white outfit for half of the film.
* TheMissionary: Nate and his wife-to-be Sophie intend to be these, but her kidnapping leads them to a different path.

* NameAndName: Used for the original title of the film.
* NiceHat: Both Bully's and Ben's crew has these.

* NumberTwo: Mr. Blake, Bully Hayes' first mate, who is always first to converse with his captain about the state of things.

* ParentalIncest: Ben claims that King Oatopi does this with his offspring.
* {{Pirate}}: Bully's crew is comprised of of "heroic scoundrel" types, while Ben's crew is made of unscrupulous types who won't shy away from rape and slavery.

* SwordSparks: At least once, during the ending {{Flynning}} between Bully and Count von Rittenberg.

* TheVonTropeFamily: Count von Rittenberg.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The film was shot in New Zealand and Fiji.

%%* SwordSparks

* BadHabits: In order to be able to bust out Bully near the end, Sophie disguises herself as a nun to get near him.

* BoardingParty: Knowing that they can't outrun Von Rittenberg's gunboat, Bully's crew boards it to fight its crew and sabotage its mechanisms.

* TookALevelInBadass: Nate and Sophie start their adventure as determined, but inexperienced couple trying to get back together. By the end of the film,

Just like most other pirate films in the two or three decades before ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''Nate and Hayes'' bombed and contributed to the belief that pirates were box office poison.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The islanders

* NumberTwo: Mr. Blake, Bully Hayes' first mate, whom is always first to converse with his captain about the state of things.

'''''Nate and Hayes''''' (also known as ''Savage Islands'' in Europe) is a {{Swashbuckler}} adventure film from 1983.

Set in the South Pacific during the late 1800's, the film centers upon {{Pirate}} Captain Bully Hayes, who gets caught by the authorities in the opening for dealing arms to the islanders. In prison he retells the events that lead him there; 18 months before, he transferred two missionaries, Nathaniel "Nate" Williamson and his betrothed Sophie, to the Island of Wakaya. He took a liking to Sophie and accepted her offer to become business partners.

However, after Bully's departure his archenemy Ben Pease, a "blackbirder" (slaver) who has been framing Bully for his crimes for years, attacks the island, taking its inhabitants for the slave-market and [[DamselInDistress kidnapping Sophie]] while he's at it. Nate teams up with Bully to get her back. While chasing Ben they run into Count Heinrich von Rittenberg, representative of ImperialGermany, who plans to start coal mines and anchoring points for the Empire with the help of Ben Pease's "merchandise."

The film stars Creator/TommyLeeJones as Bully Hayes and it was partially written by Creator/JohnHughes.

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* ArmsDealer: Bully is working as one in the opening of the film.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking
* ArtificialLimbs: One of the Bully's crew has a peg-leg made of bones.
* AuctionOfEvil: A slave auction is held in Samoa.
* BadHabits: Sophie is disguised as a nun in the end.
* BadassPreacher: Nathaniel by the end.
* BlingOfWar: Count von Rittenberg's outfit.
* BloodFromTheMouth
* BoardingParty: Bully's crew's attack on Rittenberg's gunboat.

* CallingCard: Ben leaves a blackbird sign on the foreheads of his victims to make sure that Bully (as it's really his sign) takes the all blame.

* CoolShip: Count von Rittenberg's small steam powered gunboat.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ben towards von Rittenberg when they are teamed up in the latter half of the film.

* FarSideIsland: After setting off from Wakaya, Nate is stuck on one before Bully and his crew rescue him.
* {{Flynning}}
* {{Frameup}}: Ben has framed Bully for all his crimes.
* GracefulLoser: Count von Rittenberg.
* GroinAttack: The reason why Ben hates Bully so much is because he got shot in the balls when they had a fight over a woman.
* GunsAkimbo: Sophie is using them at the end.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Fate of the German gunboat.
* HowWeGotHere
* HumanSacrifice: Cannibals of Ponape attempt to use Sophie as one.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Plenty of deaths.
* ImprovisedWeapon: During the gunboat raid, everyone else is {{Flynning}} but Sophie fights with a life belt.
* InsistentTerminology
* LovableRogue: Bully.

* ManInWhite: The uniforms of the imperial Germans. Bully's outfit for the latter half o the film.
* TheMissionary: Nate and his wife-to-be Sophie.

* NameAndName

* NoPeripheralVision
* NotSoSafeHarbor: Samoa.
* NumberTwo: Mr. Blake, Bully Hayes' First Mate.
* OffWithHisHead: Ben and Count von Rittenberg use barrelfuls of severed heads as merchandise with King Oatapi.

* {{Pirate}}

* RopeBridge: Sequence suspiciously similar to ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' happens here, though ''Nate and Hayes'' was released a year earlier than ''Temple''.
* SayMyName: Nathaniel yells out Bully's name after the attack on Wakaya.
* SexTourism: When our heroes reach Samoa, most of Bully's crew hit the brothel.
* ShirtlessScene
* ShootTheHostage: When Sophie takes one of Ben's men hostage and threatens to kill him. Ben simply kills the man.
* SuperWindowJump
* SwordCane: Fong's weapon of choice.
* SwordSparks
* TookALevelInBadass: Nate and Sophie by the end.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Ben's crew has one.
* TheVonTropeFamily: Count Von Rittenberg.

The film stars TommyLeeJones as Bully Hayes and it was partially written by Creator/JohnHughes.

Just like most other pirate films in the two or three decades before ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', ''Nate and Hayes'' bombed and contributed to the belief that pirates were box office poison.

The film stars TommyLeeJones as Bully Hayes and it was partially written by JohnHughes.

* RopeBridge: Sequence suspiciously similar to ''IndianaJones and the Temple of Doom'' happens here, though ''Temple'' was released a year later than ''Nate and Hayes''.

However, after Bully's departure his archenemy Ben Pease, "blackbirder" (slaver) who has been framing Bully for his crimes for years, attacks the island, taking its inhabitants for the slave-market and [[DamselInDistress kidnapping Sophie]] while he's at it. Nate teams up with Bully to get her back.
While chasing Ben they run into Count Heinrich von Rittenberg, representative of ImperialGermany, who plans to start coal mines and anchoring points for the Empire with the help of Ben Pease's "merchandise."

* TheVonTropeFamily: Count Von Richthofen.

* OffWithHisHead: Ben and Count von Richthofen use barrelfuls of severed heads as merchandise with King Oatapi.

* GracefulLoser: Count von Richthofen.

* CoolShip: Count von Richthofen's small steam powered gunboat.

* EyepatchOfPower: One of von Richthofen's men has it.

While chasing Ben they run into Count Heinrich von Rittenburg, representative of ImperialGermany, who plans to start coal mines and anchoring points for the Empire with the help of Ben Pease's "merchandise."

* BlingOfWar: Count von Richthofen's outfit.

While chasing Ben they run into Count Heinrich von Richthofen, representative of ImperialGermany, who plans to start coal mines and anchoring points for the Empire with the help of Ben Pease's "merchandise."

* BoardingParty: Bully's crew's attack on Richthofen's gunboat.

* DeadpanSnarker: Ben towards von Richthofen when they are teamed up in the latter half of the film.