Acapulco (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Acapulco |
| Original title | Fun in Acapulco |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Thorpe |
| script | Allan Weiss |
| production | Hal B. Wallis |
| music | Joseph J. Lilley |
| camera | Daniel L. Fapp |
| cut | Stanley E. Johnson |
| occupation | |
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Acapulco (Original title: Fun in Acapulco ) is an American musical film from 1963. It was the 13th film in which Elvis Presley took a role. The German-language premiere took place on December 20, 1963.
action
Mike Windgren comes to Acapulco as a sailor on a yacht and loses his job there. The young shoeshine boy Raoul hears his singing and persuades him to let him manage him. Mike actually gets a singing job at the Hilton Hotel . He also works in this hotel as a lifeguard at the hotel pool as a substitute for Moreno. Moreno also works as a rock diver. As a tourist attraction, Moreno jumps every evening from the rock of La Quebrada.
Mike meets the bullfighter Dolores and the hotel manager's daughter Marguerita, known as Maggie. However, Maggie is in a relationship with Moreno, who then becomes jealous. Moreno also learns that Mike was originally a trapeze artist in the circus . However, after a colleague's fatal accident, Mike increasingly suffered from vertigo and had to give up his job. When it comes to a fight between the two competitors, Moreno is injured. Knowing his fear of heights, he forces Mike to replace him as a rock diver that evening . Mike overcomes his fear of heights and makes a perfect jump. Together with Maggie and Raoul, he would now like to return to his circus in the USA.
production
The film was shot on location in Acapulco from January 28 to March 16, 1963; the interior shots were taken in Paramount Studios . Incidentally, Presley himself was refused entry to Mexico (see below) and he was replaced by a double during the recordings in Acapulco. His recordings were shot exclusively in the studio. The scene of the cliff jump was created on La Quebrada and the La Perla restaurant belonging to the Hotel El Mirador , on whose terrace the audience can watch the cliff divers at work and Presley supposedly sings the song Guadalajara , actually exists.
Elvis Presley sings the following songs in the film:
- Fun In Acapulco (Sid Wayne & Ben Weisman)
- El Toro (Bill Giant, Bernie Baum & Florence Kaye)
- Marguerita (Don Robertson)
- The Bullfighter Was A Lady (Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett)
- (There's) No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car (Fred Wise & Dick Manning)
- Bossa Nova Baby (Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)
- You Can't Say No In Acapulco (Dorothy Fuller & Lee Morris)
- Guadalajara (Pepe Guízar)
Presley also sings the songs I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here and Vino, Dinero Y Amor with the group The Four Amigos and the song Mexico with Larry Domasin .
The song Guadalajara , sung entirely in Spanish , was added to the film later. It replaced the originally planned song Malagueña salerosa , which - presumably due to legal problems - was deleted.
Reviews
The film service wrote in 1964:
"The whole film is acoustically extremely moved by the constant effort of overheated, spirited music, visually by the constant alternation of the rooms, which are astonishing by nature and refined taste, and thus casually covers its (albeit expected) emptiness."
For the lexicon of international films published by film-dienst in 1990 , Acapulco was an "American pageant film in a luxurious setting with a stupid love story as the vehicle for numerous hits by Elvis Presley."
Cinema described the film as "Elvis enchiladas with sloppy music sauce."
Oddities
Two different stories circulate about the reasons why Presley was not allowed to travel to Mexico at the time: During the filming, the Mexican filmmaker and actor Emilio Fernández sat next to the American newspaper columnist Mike Oliver, who worked in Acapulco, on the terrace of the Continental Hilton Hotel a Presley double was getting ready for the cliff jump. Fernández said to Oliver: "This is not the real Elvis Presley. He was banned from Mexico because, during an interview, when asked if he would kiss a Mexican girl in the film, he should have said: 'I'd rather kiss a black one before I kiss a Mexican girl. "
In a 1999 book with the title "Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Countercolture", author Eric Zolov explains that Presley never said this, for him completely atypical, racist escalation. Presley is said to have been tied to the story by the Mexican press because he refused to give a Mexican politician a private concert for his daughter and her teenage friends.
Web links
- Acapulco in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Acapulco at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Radermacher: The great Elvis Presley film book , Medien Publikations- und Werbegesellschaft GmbH, Hille 2010, p. 288 ISBN 978-3-942621-01-4
- ↑ See detailed .: Acapulco . In: film-dienst , No. 1, 1964.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 1. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 40.
- ↑ See cinema.de
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