Pacific Paradise (1937)
*** (out of 4)
MGM musical short features Cliff Edwards introducing the (then) famous Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians as well as the Royal Hawaiian Hula Girls. I had to look up who Harry Owens was before watching this and realized that he was fairly popular back when this was released and the hotel in Hawaii is still a popular resort today for various celebrities. This short features three different songs as well as dance numbers to go along with them. Most of these MGM shorts are just like promo reels where they show off new talent in front and behind the camera and this one here is rather interesting as it's director Sidney's first credit. He would later direct such films as Show Boat, Annie Get Your Gun and the Elvis hit Viva Las Vegas, His direction here actually adds a lot to the film because the dance numbers are actually pretty good as is the cinematography and even the editing struck me as being a lot better than what we'd normally get.
*** (out of 4)
MGM musical short features Cliff Edwards introducing the (then) famous Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians as well as the Royal Hawaiian Hula Girls. I had to look up who Harry Owens was before watching this and realized that he was fairly popular back when this was released and the hotel in Hawaii is still a popular resort today for various celebrities. This short features three different songs as well as dance numbers to go along with them. Most of these MGM shorts are just like promo reels where they show off new talent in front and behind the camera and this one here is rather interesting as it's director Sidney's first credit. He would later direct such films as Show Boat, Annie Get Your Gun and the Elvis hit Viva Las Vegas, His direction here actually adds a lot to the film because the dance numbers are actually pretty good as is the cinematography and even the editing struck me as being a lot better than what we'd normally get.