His Majesty O'Keefe is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Burt Lancaster.

The cast also included Joan Rice, André Morell, Abraham Sofaer, Archie Savage, and Benson Fong.

[3] Captain David O'Keefe, seeking his fortune in the 19th century South Pacific, decides to enlist island natives to harvest copra, but runs into a wall of cultural problems.

Backed by a Chinese dentist, he obtains a ship and sets about harvesting copra while fending off cantankerous native chieftains and ambitious German empire-builders.

The natives, happy with their existence, see no reason to work hard to obtain copra, either for a German trading company or for O'Keefe.

He organized the natives to produce the large stone disks by employing modern methods and then used them to buy copra for coconut oil.

The stones he produced were not valued as highly as those obtained by traditional methods due to the lack of personal sacrifice in their production, and the effect of an inflationary over-production.

[13] Haskin arrived in Sydney, Australia in June 1952 and five Australian actors had roles in the supporting cast, including Lloyd Berrell, Guy Doleman, Muriel Steinbeck, Grant Taylor and Harvey Adams.

Hecht and Lancaster later welcomed His Majesty O'Keefe's screenwriter, James Hill, as an equal partner and renamed their company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions in 1956.