Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)

Set in Hawaii, a charter boat skipper (Elvis Presley) wants to buy the boat he works on but the owner (Jeremy Slate) is asking a steep $10,000 price for it. He attempts to work off the asking price but meanwhile, he has girl trouble from a nightclub singer (Stella Stevens) and a rich girl (Laurel Goodwin). Directed by Norman Taurog (GIRL CRAZY). A tedious and mindless Elvis musical with the thinnest of plots. Some of the songs (but not all) are pretty good and Presley got one of his biggest hit records from the movie, Return To Sender. Elvis fans made it a box office hit but for the rest of us, it's a slog. Almost all the characters are annoying or unpleasant and I felt sorry for poor Stella Stevens stuck with the bitter and bitchy other woman role. The movie has some uncomfortable Chinese stereotypes, too. You have to be a diehard Presley fan to enjoy this one. With Robert Strauss, Benson Fong and Beulah Quo.