1h 36min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 14 April 1965 | Color, ws
Director: Boris Sagal
Stars: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone, Gary Crosby, Joby Baker, Nita Talbot, Mary Ann Mobley.
David Winters ... choreographer (uncredited)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059224/
Watched online, ok print.
12 songs in the Soundtracks.
Routine stuff. EP (b. '35), GC, JB, +1 are the band hired to watch SF in FL. MM (b. '37) is the shapely distraction that EP wants to pair with, but SF is wooed by an Italian guy, so he needs to get active in his "watching" (protecting) SF. He ends up falling for her instead.
Can't give EP much credit for having a strong sense of responsibility toward SF. Her father HS is a mobster owner of the club where his band just played, and HS will do them bodily harm if anything bad happens to SF.
All 4 bandmates can't get involved with girls, even when EP takes the burden of SF protection completely on his own shoulders (at the point he decides he's attracted to her), because they feel guilty for abandoning him (little do they know).
Best sight gag is when the boys manage to drive the boat (on a trailer) in which the Italian is wooing SF on a wild ride culminating in the swimming pool of the motel where SF & the boys are staying.
Other than that, meh. Saved from being a 5 from having SF there, if only as a curiosity. 9th of 15 films for SF (b. '44), whose 1st film was in '55.
distr. MGM, dir. Sagal; 6-
