The Girls of Pleasure Island is a 1953 Technicolor comedy film directed by Alvin Ganzer and F. Hugh Herbert. The screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert is based on the novel by former Marine William Maier. The original music score is composed by Lyn Murray. In 1945, Roger Halyard is a stiff-upper-lipped British gentleman who lives on a South Pacific island with his three nubile, naive daughters, Violet, Hester and Gloria. Hoping to shelter the girls from the lascivious advances of the opposite sex, Halyard is thwarted when 1,500 Marines arrive to transform the island into an aircraft landing base.... Despite the best efforts of Halyard, his housekeeper Thelma, and Marine Colonel Reade, romance blossoms between the three girls and a trio of handsome leathernecks. Based on a 1949 novel Pleasure Island that was the working title, Paramount acquired the property in 1951 from Columbia Pictures who did not produce it. At times, Robert Donat and William Holden were considered for the film. For the three English daughters, Paramount interviewed 900 aspiring actresses, with nine given screen tests at Pinewood Studios.
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| Release date: | April 1, 1953 |
| Directed by: | Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert |
| Runtime: | 95 Minutes |
| Producer: | Paul Jones |
| Editor: | Ellsworth Hoagland |
| Music by: | Lyn Murray, Lyn Murray |
| Cinematography: | W. Howard Greene, Daniel L. Fapp |
| Screenplay by: | F. Hugh Herbert |
| Adapted from: | The Girls of Pleasure Island |
| Genre: | Comedy |