Tropicana Interlude:

The Shaw Brothers studio is known worldwide for its martial arts movies. For me, however, I tend to think of their musicals as the prime output of the studio. Tropicana Interlude is one of those delightful musicals made in the 60s and early 70s, long after Hollywood abandoned the format.

Although this movie has quite a lot of Hollywood touches to it. In fact, the film is somewhat of a remake of my favorite Elvis movie, Blue Hawaii. Our hero (in the form of Jimmy Lin Chong) refuses to go into his father's business and instead decides to go work as a tour guide to a group of young girls. If you've seen Blue Hawaii you know what's coming but it was all fun with lots of music and footage of many historic and beautiful sites around Malaysia and Singapore.

All in all, a very enjoyable film.

Labels: Hong Kong, Musical, Shaw Brothers