Out of the Army at last, Chadwich Gates, played by Elvis Presley, is met by his girlfriend Maile at the airport. His family, very wealthy owners of the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company, want him to go to work at their business. Chad doesn't want to do that, though. He is happy to swim, surf and live on a beach shack with his girlfriend.
His get a job through Maile at the travel agency where she works, and while taking a group on a tour, he gets into a fight and ends up in jail. Conflict arises between Maile and Chad, and Chad's mother blames his jail incident on her negative influence on her. However it all gets worked out in the end, and even Chad's mother accepts their relationship in the magical fairy tale Hawaiian fantasy wedding.
Love the music in the movie, not surprising, since it IS Elvis Presley. I think the movie did a little better job at including some locals. The hula was more natural and less of a choreographed production. The local boys were seen as beach bums and the audience could still get a feel for the status of the Hawaiian people in comparison with the wealthiness of the Gates family who owned a plantation. In contrast to films we have viewed in the past, love was actually attainable, and the fairy tale of eternity finally became possible.
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