1h 30min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 30 June 1965 | Color, ws
Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney.
David Winters ... choreographer
Watched online, ok print.
I don't remember hearing anything in the film to justify the title. And the title is so bad, that you're expecting a horrid film, no?
It is horrid. It suffers from the too many plot strings, not enough weaving syndrome of the Beach films: rodeo (and he falls off every animal, because he's love-sick), diet ranch, hidden treasure, ghost town with ghosts (I didn't pay close enough attention to find out who they really were, probably the gang mentioned in the synopsis above), and to cap it all off, EP gets married at the end (that's new). At least that's what the sign on the back of his car says; we didn't see the wedding.
It feels like a bad Abbott and Costello movie, without competent comedians. JM comes close, and in the ghost town, he runs scared and screams a lot.
I think I'd rather watch the news than this, and I haven't watched the news for a month (it's so icky these days, even just the headlines).
Allied Artists Pictures, dir. Taurog; 5
