Girls! Girls! Girls! | |
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Directed by | Norman Taurog |
Screenplay by | Edward Anhalt Allen Weiss |
Story by | Allan Weiss |
Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Loyal Griggs |
Edited by | Stanley E. Johnson |
Music by | Joseph J. Lilley |
Production company | Hal Wallis Productions |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates | |
Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2,600,000 (USA)[3][4] or $3.6 million (US/Canada)[5] |
Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaii-based fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. "Return to Sender", which reached No. 2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the film. The film peaked at #6 on the Variety box office chart and finished the year at #19 on the year-end list of the top-grossing films of 1962, having earned $2.6 million at the box office.[3] It was also nominated for the Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture - Musical in 1963.
The film was the second of three films Presley shot on location in Hawaii.
Ross Carpenter is a Hawaii-based fishing guide and sailor who enjoys boating and sailing out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he seeks to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he built with his father.
Ross is caught in a love triangle with two women: childish, insensitive club singer Robin, and sweet Laurel. When Wesley Johnson makes advances on Laurel, Ross punches him out. Wesley owns the boat, so Ross thereby loses it. Laurel, however, is not who she pretends to be. She is an heiress getting over a bad breakup, and searching for someone who doesn't love her for her money. She secretly buys the Westwind for him, but Ross' male pride won't allow him to take it. Ross has to choose between her and Robin.