Kona Coast is a 1968 American drama film directed by Lamont Johnson, starring Richard Boone and Vera Miles.

[2] Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise.

Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle (Joan Blondell), who runs an alcohol-abuse treatment center where Sam's former love Melissa (Vera Miles) is a recovering alcoholic.

Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family.

[6] In March 1968, Boone announced Pioneer Productions would make The Guns of Mauna Kea, a second film in Hawaii.