This was the second most popular of the Elvis Presley features we picked up from Grand National, whose contract also included the western ‘Last Train from Gun Hill’ and five additional Elvis Presley musicals: ‘Blue Hawaii’, ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’, ‘Paradise Hawaiian Style’, ‘Fun in Acapulco’ and ‘King Creole’, all originally released by Paramount Pictures and produced by Hal Wallis Productions.
Generally regarded as the film that set the mold for every Elvis musical to follow. For within the first 30 minutes, he’s established as a fun-loving ladykiller, meets a lady whose ice doesn’t melt in response to charm, and sings two songs in a bar setting, escalating into a fistfight in which he and his buddies wreck the joint. However the films has some fine tunes including ‘Wooden Heart’. Another label designed by Marianne Frost and was again printed by yours truly.
Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’
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