Blu-ray Review Spinout Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[timk1041]

I'm going to buy this disc. I accept that it's a formulaic Elvis movie, but that's OK with me and I do like some of those actresses!

Me too! That is why there are certain shows and films I like. Put in a good looking gal in it and I'm hooked.

 

[John Hermes]

Yes, Kissin' Cousins certainly isn't that good, but I do like Yvonne Craig and Pamela Austin plus the title song is enjoyable.

And it's better than Double Trouble!

 

[Robert13]

Does anyone know if the BLUE HAWAII 4k release sold well enough to warrant Paramount issuing a follow-up for one of their properties?

 

[John Hermes]

Does anyone know if the BLUE HAWAII 4k release sold well enough to warrant Paramount issuing a follow-up for one of their properties?

I don't know but would love to see Girls! Girls! Girls! and Roustabout. I had a 35mm Technicolor print of G!G!G! and it had the best color of any film movie I ever had. It featured my favorite Elvis song, "Return To Sender", as well!

 

[Bob Furmanek]

An unissued 1972 interview, straight from Mr. Presley:

 

[Matt Hough]

I'd love to have a Blu-ray of Roustabout. Playing with one of the true legends of Hollywood (Barbara Stanwyck), Elvis does himself proud.

 

[Robin9]

Does anyone know if the BLUE HAWAII 4k release sold well enough to warrant Paramount issuing a follow-up for one of their properties?

I don't know about total sales, but I do know I bought it and that I'm glad I did.

 

[Robin9]

I don't know but would love to see Girls! Girls! Girls! and Roustabout. I had a 35mm Technicolor print of G!G!G! and it had the best color of any film movie I ever had. It featured my favorite Elvis song, "Return To Sender", as well!

The DVD of Girls! Girls! Girls! is about the worst DVD in my collection: a disgraceful grain storm. I'd love this to receive the same 4K attention as Blue Hawaii.

 

[Robert13]

I don't know but would love to see Girls! Girls! Girls! and Roustabout. I had a 35mm Technicolor print of G!G!G! and it had the best color of any film movie I ever had. It featured my favorite Elvis song, "Return To Sender", as well!

I would love to see G!G!G! done next! It's one of the Elvis films I have watched repeatedly because it has such charm and Tai Ling and Mai Ling are hilariously adorable! Such great scenes from the overnight rainstorm on the porch to the apartment disaster of "The Walls Have Ears". Now I really HOPE that is the next one!

 

[Robert13]

The DVD of Girls! Girls! Girls! is about the worst DVD in my collection: a disgraceful grain storm. I'd love this to receive the same 4K attention as Blue Hawaii.

I know, it is screaming for a restoration. Have you seen the dvd of "Paradise, Hawaiian Style"? It's even worse. I was shocked that they let it pass for a release on dvd.

 

[RICK BOND]

I Wish we could get a Bluray or 4K of Loving You !

 

[John Hermes]

I would love to see G!G!G! done next! It's one of the Elvis films I have watched repeatedly because it has such charm and Tai Ling and Mai Ling are hilariously adorable! Such great scenes from the overnight rainstorm on the porch to the apartment disaster of "The Walls Have Ears". Now I really HOPE that is the next one!

You know your Elvis movies! The porch scene was striking on the 35mm print.

 

[Joel Arndt]

Matt, another one of your excellent reviews and I think it's spot on. Spinout's an enjoyable, lightweight 90 min. ride with attractive stars, but definitely not a 5 star film. And those colors really pop! Another excellent job from the team at WBMPI.

Like you, I enjoyed seeing Una Merkel, Cecil Kellaway and Frederick Worlock in their small roles. In the opening credits it's fun to see the names of long-term MGM production team members such as: Joe Pasternak, Norman Taurog, George Stoll, Sydney Guilaroff and William Tuttle. And it appears that the Beach Shack sequence was filmed at Esther Williams' pool on the back lot.

 

[Robert13]

You know your Elvis movies! The porch scene was striking on the 35mm print.

It's definitely one that I have seen many, many times cause it cheers me up. LOL
Would also love to put in a request for G.I. BLUES as it's another fave with the wondeful chemistry between Elvis and Juliet Prowse and her jazzy energetic dance solo! Wow!

 

[John Hermes]

George Feltenstein stated on this month's WB Archive podcast that the pre-orders for Spinout were "very. very empowering" and they will have more Elvis on Blu-ray in "the coming years". He starts discussing Spinout at about 35:00 in the link below.

 

[roxy1927]

These sound like they were great drive-in movies.

 

[Robin9]

I know, it is screaming for a restoration. Have you seen the dvd of "Paradise, Hawaiian Style"? It's even worse. I was shocked that they let it pass for a release on dvd.

No, I don't have that one and if it's that bad, I'm not missing much!

 

[John Hermes]

No, I don't have that one and if it's that bad, I'm not missing much!

I had a beautiful 35mm Technicolor print of Paradise Hawaiian Style. It was in the best condition of any of my ten Elvis films in 35mm. Paramount needs to get all of their Elvis films looking like Blue Hawaii!

 

[DarkVader]

Since we are discussing Elvis movies in addition to Spinout, I was quite surprised to read that Stella Stevens did not want to do and hated doing GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!

Stella made no secret of her unwillingness to make 1962's Girls! Girls! Girls!

In 2004 she said: "I was sent the script by Paramount to read. And I thought, 'Hm, he’s from Memphis, and so am I. That’s a good idea to put us together.' So I read the script. I wound up throwing it across the room! I thought, 'What a piece of sh**. I’m not going to be in this.'"

Even when the studio threatened to blacklist her, Stella would not back down.

She added: "I said, 'I’ll starve. I don’t care. My child will starve because of you, and we will die because of you because I will not do this junk.' So they said, 'Please reconsider', and they promised that my next film would be with Montgomery Clift. And I said, 'Oh, well, yes. Okay, I’ll do the Elvis picture. It’s only six days’ work, and I’ll just forget about it.'"

 

[DarkVader]

Pamela Tiffin did an interview where she was offered 2 Elvis films (she was under contract to Hal Wallis), the first being Blue Hawaii. She turned that down. She was offered another one and she was dissuaded from doing it by Dolores Hart, who warned her against doing "Elvis movies". Tiffin went on to say that she later regretted her decision.