Blue Hawaii
1961
In a return to musical comedy after several dramatic roles, Elvis Presley stars in this vehicle tailored to his singing talents. Chad Gates (Presley) returns home to Honolulu after a stint in the service. He shows little interest in working for his overbearing parents' pineapple plantation, much to their dismay. Instead, Chad .. Read more
| Starring | Elvis Presley, Angela Lansbury, Roland Winters, Joan Blackman |
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| Director | Norman Taurog |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
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Blue Hawaii
In a return to musical comedy after several dramatic roles, Elvis Presley stars in this vehicle tailored to his singing talents. Chad Gates (Presley) returns home to Honolulu after a stint in the service. He shows little interest in working for his overbearing parents' pineapple plantation, much to their dismay. Instead, Chad finds a job as a tour guide and thereby gives himself a chance to dance with, and sing to, a variety of Hawaii's most beautiful women. The film includes musical numbers such as "Blue Hawaii," "Rock-A-Hula Baby," "Hawaiian Wedding Song" and "Island of Love," as well as the immortal "Can't Help Falling in Love."
| Starring | Elvis Presley, Angela Lansbury, Roland Winters, Joan Blackman, Howard McNear, John Archer, Nancy Walters |
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| Director | Norman Taurog |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish |
| Released | DVD: 18 Mar 2002 Production year: 1961 |
| Format | DVD |
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Though one of Elvis Presley's biggest ever successes, this movie was directly responsible for turning him from the new James Dean into the king of pap. Confronted with the huge box office grosses, Elvis's controllers — venal manager Colonel Tom Parker and film producer Hal Wallis — decided that every movie their boy made from then on would be the same mix of girls, songs and exotic locations. Thirty films later, they'd sacrificed both their audience and Presley's screen credibility. His talent was bigger than they knew, however, and he died a king. For all that, this is colourful, amiable fluff, with some nice near-jailbait, Angela Lansbury as Elvis's mom, and such beautifully performed songs as the title number and Can't Help Falling in Love.
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Presley escapes the GI Blues and takes a job with a Hawaii tourist agency in this innocuous star vehicle/holiday... read more on Time Out
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Elvis in girdle trunks
He's already been at the pizzas. With extra pineapple.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
If you ever wanna watch a good musical with all the sing-along songs then this one is a definate one for you ...
elvis plays a good solid role in this a good make film and the songs as you would expect from the king of rock n roll ...
Scenery is a bit fake at times but overall does not spoil the film .. well into musicals for all the family -
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