1h 54min | Drama, Musical | 15 June 1961 | Color, WS
Director: Philip Dunne
Stars: Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, Rafer Johnson, John Ireland, Gary Lockwood.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055623/
Watched online, blurry print with subtitles in unknown language.
4 songs in the Soundtracks, all performed by EP.
No way this should be a musical, but I'm not going to fight it.
The poster is accurate that he's romantically involved with 3 women at the same time.
The film is about as aimless as EP's character. Mother died when he was 9, father and brother no help, he goes to prison for assaulting (killing?) a man with a fist that apparently should be boxing, because he does it again later in the film (but this time the man has a bad heart and does die).
So EP is a troubled, undereducated young man yet again. But this time he likes to read, and has a talent for writing, and shrink HL encourages him to go to college. So maybe there's hope for him yet.
Jerry Wald Prod., distr. Fox, dir. Dunne; 6
