1h 42min | Comedy, Musical | 22 November 1961 | Color, WS
Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury.
Charles O'Curran ... stager: musical numbers
15 songs in the Soundtracks, 14 performed by EP. Can't Help Falling In Love and the title song are the most familiar.
IMDb trivia: "When this film (and its soundtrack album) proved to be enormous hits, Elvis' manager Colonel Tom Parker decided to use it as a blueprint for all future Presley films - put him in an exotic setting, give him one or more pretty co-stars and make sure he sang enough songs to fill both sides of an LP. And the formula worked - Elvis ranked among the Top Ten Box Office Stars seven times in the 1960s."
More IMDb trivia: "The soundtrack album for this movie is not only Elvis Presley's most successful chart album, but it is also the #1 album overall for 1961."
Very pleasant film; lots of songs and lots of location shots. What keeps this from being a 7 is the plot: the bratty girl in the tour group is really a pain to watch too.
Hal Wallis Prod., distr. Paramount, dir. Taurog; 6+
