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Director Richard Thorpe’s 1948 musical Technicolor romantic comedy film On an Island with You stars Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, Xavier Cugat, Leon Ames and Marie Windsor. MGM’s colourful, escapist musical concerns a swimming […]
The creaky, old-style 1962 drama film Diamond Head is a case of well-meaning, but badly dated and overheated melodramatics in Hawaii, with Charlton Heston over-egging the pudding as a bigoted, bullying Hawaiian landowner. ‘The Giant […]
Director Edward Ludwig’s 1952 thriller Big Jim McLain is McCarthyite rightist propaganda from John Wayne’s production company, with John Wayne and James Arness as US government agents – House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain […]
Director Tom Gries’s 1970 adventure film The Hawaiians [Master of the Islands] is the continuing history of James Michener’s huge novel Hawaii, as conjured up by the best minds of Hollywood, with Charlton Heston, as […]
Director Frank Tuttle’s pleasant, carefree 1937 musical comedy romance Waikiki Wedding stars a fresh-faced Bing Crosby, who croons the grass skirts off Hawaiian maidens, in this entirely jovial and genial Paramount Pictures musical, best remembered, […]
Elvis Presley stars as Rick Richards, a civil helicopter pilot who plans to start a charter flying service in Hawaii and plays the field romantically, and Suzanna Leigh co-stars forlornly as his main love interest, […]
Sixties heartthrobs Fabian Forte, Tab Hunter and Peter Brown ride the Hawaiian surf and romance lovelies Shelley Fabares, Barbara Eden and Susan Hart, in director Don Taylor’s frothy and flaky 1964 Ride the Wild Surf, […]