Blue Hawaii

Norman Taurog · 1961 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A young man discharged from the army returns to Honolulu and refuses the desk waiting for him at his father's pineapple company, taking work as a guide at his girlfriend's tourist agency instead. Chaperoning four teenage girls and their schoolteacher puts him on beaches and boats with a ukulele in reach. The template for the Elvis Presley travelogue picture, its soundtrack held the American album chart for twenty weeks.

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