Hanauma Bay is the romantic location of Elvis Presley beach boy days in the film Blue Hawaii. John Wayne and Lee Marvin's film Donovan's Reef was also filmed at Hanauma Bay.
Elvis Presley's seventh film was the first of his "Hawaii trilogy" (including Girls! Girls! Girls! and Paradise, Hawaiian Style). While its story is daft--the King has just been released from his Army posting in Italy and returned to the islands, where he's trying to avoid working in his father's fruit business--the music is not: "Blue Hawaii," "Almost Always True," and the beautiful "Can't Help Falling in Love." Angela Lansbury plays Elvis's mother, who can't seem to get through to him. Directed by the star's frequent collaborator, Norman Taurog (G.I. Blues). --Tom Keogh --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.61) on DVD or VHS.Blue Hawaii (available on VHS or DVD) 1961
Night and you
And blue Hawaii
The night is heavenly
And you are heaven to me
Lovely you
And blue Hawaii
With all this loveliness
There should be love
Come with me
While the moon is on the sea,
The night is young
And so are we, so are we
Dreams come true
In blue Hawaii
And mine could all come true
This magic night of nights with you
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Filmed in Hawaii
BLUE CRUSH
Life for Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) has been one long Pipe dream. She’s about to make that dream a reality if she can keep from drowning in her own fear. As the clock ticks down to the Pipe Masters surf competition on the North Shore of Oahu, more is at stake for Anne Marie than the pressure of competing in one of the world’s most dangerous, aggressive and male-dominated sports. She must first win a dreaded contest within. Sharing a beach shack with her best friends Eden (Michelle Rodriguez)and Lena (Sanoe Lake) and rebellious younger sister Penny (Mika Boorem), Anne Marie lives for the adrenaline-charged surf scene, rising before dawn every day to charge the Pipeline’s deadly waves. The friends eke out a living as maides in a luxury resort hotel. The humble job pays the bills and lets them keep their focus on the water. But things change when a pro football team with slovenly habits and fat wallets checks in. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts loosing her balance – and finding it – as she falls for quarterback Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis). Suddenly there are options: trophy wife or trophy winner? But there’s really only one choice for someone like Anne Marie. Matt knows it, too – that’s why he likes her. And when Annie faces a paralyzing moment of truth on the biggest day of her life, Matt is there along with Lena, Eden and Penny, to help her remember why the goal that has driven her for so long matters so much.
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore star together for the first time since The Wedding Singer in one of the funniest romantic comedies in years. Henry (Sandler) lives an enviable life in a Hawaiian paradise, spending every night with a beautiful tourist in search of an island fling. It's a sweet life with no strings attached...until he meets Lucy (Barrymore). He and Lucy hit it off from the get-go, but the next day she acts like she doesn't know him. Has his karma come around to kick him in the butt or what? Actually, Lucy has short-term memory loss so every night all memory of her day is erased. But a man in love will go to any lengths to win over the girl of his dreams, and if that means having to find imaginative ways of doing it over again every day, then Henry's up for the challenge. Rob Schneider (Big Daddy) and Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) co-star in 50 First Dates, which will win you over every time you watch it!
Lilo is a 5 year old Hawaiian girl who's quite peculiar: she has an off beat take on life and is a little obsessed about taking care of downtrodden animals. for example, she collects cans and bottles to recycle from the beach and buys fish food with the money she makes, then paddles out in the ocean to feed the fish there. Meanwhile, on a distant planet, alien authorities have captured the most dangerous of all criminals and are sending him via rocket to a prison planet. This is stitch.
50 FIRST DATES; Columbia Pictures; Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore; Oahu.
THE HULK; Universal Pictures; Eric Bana; Maui.
EMBRACING MANA; Toho Films (Japan); Iayoko Kawahara; Big Island.
THE UNTITLED HAMBURG PROJECT; Universal Pictures; Ben Stiller, Debra
Messing; Oahu.
2002
THE BIG BOUNCE; Shangra-La Entertainment; Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman;
Oahu.
CHARLIE’S ANGELS II – FULL THROTTLE; Columbia Pictures; Cameron Diaz,
Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu; 2nd unit, Oahu.
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW; 20th Century Fox; Dennis Quaid; Big Island
HELLDORADO; Universal Pictures; Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Christopher
Walken; Oahu.
TEARS OF THE SUN (formerly the “Untitled Willis/Fuqua Project”); Revolution
Studios/Cheyenne Enterprises; Bruce Willis, Monica Belucci; Oahu, plate
shots on Kauai.
BLUE CRUSH; Universal Studios/Imagine Entertainment; Kate Bosworth, Faizon
Love; Oahu.
FINAL EXAM; Hawaii Filmwerks; Brent Huff, KariWuhrer; Big Island.
KAPU; Hawaii Filmwerks; Big Island
DIE ANOTHER DAY; 20TH James Bond film; MGM; Pierce Brosnan; opening
sequence; Maui.
2001
LILO & STITCH; Walt Disney Pictures; animated; voices of Daveigh Chase, Jason
Scott Lee; Tia Carrere; Kauai and Oahu.
THE TIME MACHINE; Dreamworks/WB; Guy Pearce; Kauai.
DRAGONFLY; NDE Productions; Kevin Costner; Kauai.
PLANET OF THE APES; 20th Century Fox; Mark Wahlberg; Big Island.
FINAL FANTASY; Columbia Pictures; computer animated; produced by Square USA;
Oahu.
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE; Revolution Studios; Adam Sandler; Oahu.
THE RIDE; Third Reef Pictures; Scot Davis, Sean Kaawa; Oahu.
2000
THE NIGHT MARCHERS; Cousins Brothers Productions; Blake and Brent Cousins;
Big Island.
THE TESTAMENTS (formerly titled Legacy II); Deseret Media; IMAX docudrama
for LDS; Kauai.
WAIKIKI: IN THE WAKE OF DREAMS; FilmWorks; documentary; Edgy Lee,
writer-producer.
JURASSIC PARK III; Universal/DreamWorks; Sam Niell, Tea Leoni; Kauai, Oahu,
Molokai.
WINDTALKERS; MGM; Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach; Oahu.
TO END ALL WARS; Argyll Film Partners; Keifer Sutherland; Kauai.
PEARL HARBOR; Jerry Bruckheimer/MichaelBay/Disney; Ben Affleck; Oahu.
1999
THE BIG SHOW; Cinequannon Prods.; Japanese musical by Shigeru Muroi; Oahu.
OFF THE LIP; Abandoned Pictures; Robert Michelson, pdcr/dir; Maui.
1998
MOLOKAI: The True Story of Father Damien; ERA Films (Belgium); David
Wenham and Peter O’Toole; Molokai & Oahu.
MOONGLOW; Latitude 20 Pictures; Joe Moore and Milo O’Shea; Oahu.
1997
PANIOLO O HAWAII, COWBOYS OF THE FAR WEST; FilmWorks; documentary;
Edgy Lee, writer-producer.
6 DAYS/7 NIGHTS; Touchstone Pictures; Harrison Ford and Anne Heche; Kauai.
DINOSAURS, Walt Disney Pictures; animated feature; Big Island, Maui and Kauai.
CITY OF ANGELS; Atlas Entertainment; Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan; Oahu.
RETURN TO SAVAGE BEACH, Skyhawk Films; Maui.
GODZILLA; TriStar Pictures; Matthew Broderick and Hank Azaria; Oahu.
LANI LOA--THE HEAVENLY PASSAGE; Chrome Dragon Films; Angus MacFadyen
and Ray Bumatai; Big Island.
SPHERE; Warner Bros., Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone; Oahu.
KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE; Touchstone Pictures; Richard Dreyfuss and Lily Tomlin;
Oahu and Big Island.
RACE TO THE VOLCANO; Angel Grove Productions; Mighty Morphin Power
Rangers; Maui.
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG; Walt Disney Pictures; Bill Paxton; Kauai and Oahu.
MEET...THE DEEDLES; Walt Disney Pictures; Dennis Hopper, Oahu.
1996
A VERY BRADY SEQUEL; Parmount Pictures; Shelley Long, Gary Cole, and Tim
Matheson; Oahu.
BEYOND PARADISE (originally titled KAMA'AINA); Brickwood Galuteria; Oahu
and Big Island.
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE; Walt Disney Pictures; Brendan Fraser and Leslie
Mann; Oahu and Kauai.
THE LOST WORLD; Universal Studios; Jeff Goldblum; Kauai.
IN GOD'S HANDS; Big Wave Productions, directed by Zalman King; Oahu & Maui.
GANG RELATED; Orion Pictures; Lela Rochon; Oahu.
1995
RACE THE SUN; Tri-Star/Sony; Jim Belushi, Halle Berry, Joseph Cho, Anthony
Ruivivar, Adriane Uganiza; Oahu.
THEN THERE WERE NONE; Hawaiian history documentary; Elizabeth Lindsey,
writer/producer.
1994
WATERWORLD; MCA/Universal City Studios; Kevin Costner and Jeanne
Tripplehorn; Big Island.
UNDER THE HULA MOON; Jersey Born Pictures; Stephen Baldwin, Emily Lloyd,
Chris Penn; Oahu.
OUTBREAK; Warner Brothers; Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman and Rene Russo;
Kauai.
BORN TO BE WILD; Fine Animal Productions/Warner Brothers; Helen Shaver, Peter
Boyle and Wil Horneff; Oahu.
DON JUAN DeMARCO; Juno Pictures; Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando and Faye
Dunaway; Oahu.
1993
NORTH; Rob Reiner - Castle Rock Pictures; Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Jason
Alexander, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Kauai.
