Girls! Girls! Girls!
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| Directed by | Norman Taurog |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Written by | Allan Weiss (story) Edward Anhalt |
| Starring | Elvis Presley Stella Stevens Laurel Goodwin |
| Music by | Joseph J. Lilley |
| Cinematography | Loyal Griggs |
| Editing by | Stanley E. Johnson |
| Studio | Hal Wallis Productions |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | November 21, 1962 (USA), March 16, 1965 (Turkey), January 1963-May 1964 (Europe)[1] |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Language | English |
Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaiian fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. "Return to Sender", which reached #2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the movie. The movie opened at #6 on the Variety box office chart and finished the year at #31 on the year-end list of the top-grossing movies of 1962. The movie earned $2.5 million at the box office.
The film was shot on location in Hawaii.
Plot
Elvis Presley plays Ross Carpenter, a Hawaiian fishing guide and sailor who enjoys boating and sailing out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he seeks to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he built with his father.
Ross is caught in a love triangle with two women: childish, insensitive club singer Robin (Stella Stevens), and sweet Laurel (Laurel Goodwin). When Wesley Johnson (Jeremy Slate) makes advances on Laurel, Ross punches him out. Wesley owns the boat, so Ross thereby loses it. Laurel, however, is not who she pretends to be. Ross has to choose between her and Robin.
Boating accident
During the filming of Carpenter's rescue of Laurel from Johnson aboard the Westwind via a small motor boat, both crafts are moving at the same rate of speed in fairly rough water. After hopping down into the smaller boat, it begins to pull away when apparently something goes wrong. It gets stuck in front of the much larger sail boat where it is clearly run over. The shot cuts away just before the small boat goes under. The stuntman can be clearly seen reaching up to try to keep the sailboat from running over the smaller boat. It then jumps to a shot of the motor boat behind the sail boat heading back to shore.
Primary cast
- Elvis Presley: Ross Carpenter
- Stella Stevens: Robin Gantner
- Laurel Goodwin: Laurel Dodge
- Jeremy Slate: Wesley Johnson
- Benson Fong: Kin Yung
- Robert Strauss: Sam Anderson
- Jack Nitzsche: Piano Player in Lounge Band (uncredited)
- Nestor Paiva: Arthur Morgan (uncredited)
- Linda Rand: Village Woman (uncredited)
- Edward Sheehan: Ed-Man on Dock (uncredited)
- Red West: Bongo-Playing Crewman on Tuna Boat (uncredited)
Awards and Nominations
- Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Motion Picture - Musical at the 1963 ceremony. The winner that year was The Music Man.[2] Elvis Presley received a 2nd place Laurel Award for the best male performance in a musical for his acting role in this movie.[3]
References
↑Jump back a sectionExternal links
- Elvis in Hawaii fansite.
- Girls! Girls! Girls! at the Internet Movie Database
- Girls! Girls! Girls! at AllRovi
Movie Reviews
- Review by Jamie Gillies at Apollo Movie Guide.
DVD Reviews
- Review of the movie collection "Lights! Camera! Elvis! Collection (King Creole, Blue Hawaii, G.I. Blues, Fun in Acapulco, Roustabout, Girls! Girls! Girls!, Paradise, Hawaiian Style, Easy Come, Easy Go) by Paul Mavis at DVD Talk, August 6, 2007.
- Review by Jon Danziger at digitallyOBSESSED!, February 3, 2003.
See also
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