Diamond Head is a 1962 Eastmancolor drama romance film starring Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, and James Darren, directed by Guy Green, and released by Columbia Pictures.

He objects when his sister, Sloane Howland, announces she plans to marry Paul Kahana, a native Hawaiian, though Richard is having a torrid affair with an Asian woman, Mai Chen.

After an angry fight with Sloane and Dean, Richard is confronted with a personal dilemma—whether to continue on with his close-minded ways or to welcome his newborn son into his family.

"Had he lived to do the film, he would have been a widower and the kid sister his daughter, but the adjusted script worked just as well, though the King’s shoes were a loose fit for me.

"[8] Heston met with Guy Green, who he liked, and both men wanted Yvette Mimieux to play the female lead.

"[10] Filming began on the island of Kauai in March 1962, with the unit moving to Honolulu in April for further work, then to the studio in Los Angeles.

No, that’s not a crack about the people who made the film, but maybe I was focusing on the wrong agenda when we shot Diamond Head.

"[15] In October 1965 Heston listed the movie as one he had made which was a "bust with me and the critics", along with The Pigeon That Took Rome, The Buccaneer and Major Dundee.