Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)

Well editing missed this one.....Elvis is clearly "excited" during The Walls Have ears. The drunk that he save Laurel from is the same teen mechanic he fights in Loving You. The little Chinese girls are the sisters of the little girl who played Sue Lin in It Happened at the Worlds Fair. It just seems the same script with minor changes and recycling cast from other movies. The song Return to Sender is the best part of the movie as Elvis is trying his new Jackie Wilson moves.

This Elvis Hawaiian location film put an exclamation point three times on its one word repeated title. This movie is about Girls! Girls! Girls! Well actually it only has two of them with any substantial roles, still the King's liking for the opposite sex is amply demonstrated.Elvis plays a charter boat skipper whose family once owned the boat that he now just works on. It was sold to a family friend and he's trying to earn the money to buy it back. Then it gets sold to the obnoxious Jeremy Slate which sets in motion a lot of the story.The two Girls! in the film are rich girl going incognito Laurel Goodwin and nightclub singer Stella Stevens. Elvis picks up a few bucks singing where Stevens sings and one of the numbers there is one of his biggest hits Return To Sender. This film is worth seeing Elvis introduce that song alone. Robert Strauss plays the club owner in a role where he's strangely muted especially if you've seen him in Stalag 17 or The Man With The Golden Arm. Not enough use of that man's talents was done here.Again lovely Hawaiian scenery earmarks this film as with all the other Presley's Hawaiian location movies. Fans of the eternal King will like this one as will others.

"Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel." You've seen it all before; the gorgeous women, Elvis singing ridiculous songs such as Girls! Girls! Girls!, Earth Boy and Song of the Shrimp (!). But some songs are really great; Return to Sender, Because of Love and Where Do You Come From. My favorite scene is him and Laurel Goodwin (who plays Laurel Dodge) dancing the tango to The Walls Have Ears. The leading lady was adorable, but Elvis' character was forgettable and dull. I don't see this as a film any movie collector should collect because of its acting or plot, but because it's a collector's item. Anyway, don't expect a great movie, but be prepared to sing a long with the songs.

About the only positive recommendation I can make for this film is the unintentionally amusing opening scene.An oldish man is struggling from the back of a boat to land a fish. Hardly surprising, as it is a huge marlin, twelve feet in length and weighing about half a ton.Elvis steps in and lands the thing in about eight seconds flat, although he does have to turn the reel three times.What a man!