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Paradise, Hawaiian Style is a 1966 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was the third and final motion picture that Presley filmed in Hawaii. The film reached #40 on the Variety weekly box office chart, earning $2.5 million in theaters.
Elvis himself, by all accounts, remained consistently well-mannered, cooperative, and thoroughly professional, in spite of his own career frustrations. He deserved better. Having said that, Paradise, Hawaiian Style, a nice, enjoyable and undemanding film, in great colour, and with fantastic scenery.
With Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Donna Butterworth. Rick Richards is a helicopter pilot who wants to set up a charter flying service in Hawaii -- along the way he makes some friends, including a young Hawaiian girl and her father, romances Judy Hudson, and sings a few songs.
- (2.5K)
- Comedy, Musical
- Michael D. Moore
- 1966-06-15
Except for a brief dramatic interval involving a missing helicopter, Paradise Hawaiian Style is essentially a musical comedy, with Elvis delivering most of the one-liners. Even the one perfunctory fight scene is slapstick, with Elvis flattening all comers without taking a single punch himself.
After striking box office gold with the massive hit Blue Hawaii (1961), Elvis Presley returned for more fun in the 50th state, with the combination of sun, surf, girls and song just too good to leave alone.
Elvis Presley's colorful, musical comedy, "Paradise, Hawaiian Style," turns 50 this summer. This movie, in which Elvis plays a pilot named Rick, was Elvis' 21st movie, and the third (and final) one made in Hawaii.
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style is the thirteenth soundtrack album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 3643, in June 1966. It is the soundtrack to the 1966 film of the same name starring Presley.
