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Paradise, Hawaiian Style

1966, Movie, NR, 91 mins

Paradise, Hawaiian Style: Review

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Presley plays an airline pilot who loses his job because of his wild ways. He goes to Hawaii and joins his old pal Shigeta to form a charter helicopter service. He hires the pretty Leigh as secretary, but continues his playboy ways. While transporting some dogs, Presley is momentarily distracted and accidentally dips his helicopter, forcing the car of an FAA official to go into a ditch. The incident causes Presley's license to be suspended. He is supposed to wait until a hearing before he can fly again, but violates the order when Shigeta breaks his leg and needs to get to a hospital. To compound his problems, Presley's wanton ways catch up with him when a bevy of angry beauties gangs up on him at a party. But all is righted in the end when he wins both the hearing and the affections of his one true love, Leigh. Had anyone else done this film, it might have been passable. Presley had shown he was capable of better quality films early in his career, but this poor attempt to recapture the feeling of BLUE HAWAII (1961) is a major disappointment. His high living was beginning to catch up with him, and he looks overweight and puffy. It's sad to think that the man who once shocked a nation on the "Ed Sullivan Show" was reduced to singing such tripe as "A Dog's Life" and the most un-Presley-like song "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" The film isn't badly made; the direction and script have their entertaining moments. But Presley's great talent was wasted as his career was woefully manipulated by a coterie of yes men. Colonel Tom Parker served as technical consultant on this and other Presley features. In all, Presley sings "Paradise, Hawaiian Style," "Scratch My Back, (Then I'll Scratch Yours)," "Stop Where You Are," "This Is My Heaven" (Bill Giant, Bernie Baum, Florence Kaye), "House of Sand," "Queenie Wahine's Papaya" (Giant, Baum, Kaye, Donna Butterworth), "Datin"' (Fred Wise, Randy Starr, Butterworth), "Drums of the Islands" (Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett), "A Dog's Life" (Sid Wayne, Ben Weisman), "Sand Castles" (Herb Goldberg, David Hess, Butterworth), and "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" (Hughie Cannon). leave a comment
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