Ross Carpenter is a Hawaii-based fishing guide and sailor who enjoys boating and sailing out on the sea.

Ross is caught in a love triangle with two women: childish, insensitive club singer Robin, and sweet Laurel.

He handles the role capably, though one would hardly expect a hardened fisherman to be as soft, smooth and white as the one Presley depicts.

"[7] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that the songs were "strung very pleasantly on a story-line of disarming simplicity and bedded comfortably in a stretch of gently fizzing repartee.

"[8] Margaret Harford of the Los Angeles Times called it "no better or worse than previous Elvis epics.