Fun in Acapulco (1963) on Netflix
Fired from a boat in Acapulco by the owner's daughter, Mike Windgren needs work. Raoul Almeido helps him become a hotel lifeguard and singer, and the champion diver of Mexico resents him.
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Plot summary
Mike Windgren earns his living on a boat in Acapulco, Mexico. Janie Harkins, the owner's bratty daughter, gets him fired, and he has to look for other work. Raoul Almeido, a Mexican boy, helps him find work at a hotel, as a lifeguard and a singer. There the hotel's other lifeguard, Mexico's champion diver, resents Mike for taking some of his hours and for stealing his woman.
Cast
- Teri Hopeas Janie Harkins
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fun in Acapulco (1963)
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- Elvis Presley was declared persona non grata by Mexican authorities after violent riots at the openings of his films King Creole and G.I. Blues, so a stunt double was used for him in Acapulco and Presley filmed his own shots in March 1963 at the Paramount studios in Los Angeles.
- Decades later it emerged that the false 1957 quote about Presley that set off the ban was planted by Ernesto Peralta Uruchurtu, the Regent of Mexico City, as revenge after Presley's Los Angeles office returned his blank check for an appearance at a media mogul's daughter's 15th birthday bash.
