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The Worst Film Ever

Excellent but underrated film

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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.

Released in 1962, "Girls! Girls! Girls" stars Elvis as a Hawaiian fishing guide/sailor who tries to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built, after his employer decides to retire to Arizona. Meanwhile he's caught between two women: An insensitive club singer (Stella Stevens) and a sweet rich girl who pretends to be working class (Laurel Goodwin).As my title blurb says, this is a run-of-the-mill Elvis flick, but it's somewhat effective simply because it's essentially a serious drama situated amongst the Hawaiian boating/fishing industry. Of course, Presley performs a song every 7-12 minutes. Stevens' role is rather small so the focus is on the protagonist's romance with the secretly rich girl. Speaking of whom, two years later Goodwin played Yeoman Colt on the original (rejected) pilot episode of Star Trek, which was reworked into the two-part episode "The Menagerie," premiering in November, 1966.In a scene near the end where Elvis is rescuing the girl, there's a boat crash where a sailboat runs into a small motorboat. The stunt people (or actors) in the motorboat get hit by the sailboat and somewhat pushed under. Either the movie was so low budget that re-filming was out of the question or the filmmakers simply left it in because they knew it would get a reaction out of audience, some of whom may not be movie-savvy and assumed it was Elvis in the boat, which makes it all the more interesting.The movie runs 106 minutes and was shot in Hawaii.GRADE: C

Certainly not one of Elvis Presley's best movies, OR soundtracks. 'Return to Sender','I Don't Wanna Be Tied' and a finish of 'Because of Love' are the only half decent songs in this rather boring tale that always fails to keep even me - an ardent Elvis fan - engaged for it's 95 minutes. Even the leading ladies Stella Stevens and Laurel Goodwin aren't particularly glamorous unlike those in other Elvis films. The leading ladies in Elvis films were on a par with the infamous 'Bond Girls' in my opinion, but not in 'Girls! Girls! Girls!'. Indeed, Stevens didn't take to Elvis at all, tried to pull out of filming and claims to have never watched the film... Elvis plays Ross Carpenter - a fisherman harbouring desires to run his own fishing business instead of working for his uptight, arrogant new boss. It's not much of a plot, and as stated, doesn't stand up as a memorable Elvis Movie.

One of Elvis' best movie song performances comes in this film, and it's "I Don't Wanna Be Tied". The King is electrifying in this number! I like it better than "Return To Sender", which was the big seller. Elvis shakes and bakes like there's no tomorrow! Next to "C'mon Everybody" from "Viva Las Vegas", I think Elvis does his best movie dancing. EPE ought to re-release this song as they did with "A Little Less Conversation".Stella Stevens was cool in this film as well.The King's acting is unusually strong in this film. He has an edge here that is not often seen in his other roles. The scenes with Jeremy Slate and Elvis are particularly entertaining. His character (Ross Carpenter) is in a fix financially and Elvis' edge suits the role.I think that as the formula plot movies piled up, you can see Elvis just kinda going through the motions, and not developing a character.Let's face it - Elvis Presley was about as handsome and talented as a man could be. It's a shame that the Colonel put him on the movie treadmill with banal vehicles.I've heard that Elvis was offered the role of Tony in "West Side Story", but the Colonel's greed screwed up the deal. What a shame. It could have put Elvis in a serious direction cinematically. The role went to Richard Beymer, who was panned by the critics. I think of Elvis singing "Maria", "There's A Place For Us", and I know he would have been fantastic.