July 21 movie: On an Island With You. Ages ago Kevin commented that some of these movies reminded him of the Onion story, "Area Man Arrested for Romantic Comedy Behavior." This is definitely one of those movies.
Esther Williams plays a movie star filming in Hawaii with her fiance and costar, Ricardo Montalban. Peter Lawford is a Navy man who saw Williams on a USO tour a few years before, decided they had Twu Luv, and becomes her crazy stalker. He follows her around demanding her time and attention, kisses her without invitation, etc. When she refuses to dance with him -- she's very clear about not encouraging him in any way -- he kidnaps her and flies her to a deserted island. Where of course she forgets all about Ricardo Montalban and falls in love with her psycho stalker. Because nothing is more romantic than the Stockholm Syndrome.
My god this movie pissed me off. I wish I had turned it off when I realized where it was going. I kept watching for the dance numbers with Montalban and Cyd Cherisse. Jimmy Durante is also in it, and Xavier Cugat.
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