M | 1h 30min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 23 October 1968 | Color, ws
Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, Don Porter, Rudy Vallee, Dick Sargent.
Jack Baker ... choreographer: 'A Little Less Conversation'
Jack Regas ... choreographer: 'Dream Sequence'
Rating M was later changed to GP then PG. There's no nudity that I caught, but the definite implication that EP slept with MC at long last, near the end of the film. Also, DS mentions that she didn't let him actually do the deed, but using very indirect language. For violence: I remember at least 3 times that fists flew.
4 songs in the Soundtracks, and it felt very sparse. The 2 with choreographers are the more memorable, especially the dream sequence. Being a dream, they went a little psychedelic.
MC is very pretty and watchable. She plays a kook who needs watching, if you're in the same universe with her; she's very unpredictable. EP resists her for the longest time, then she gets hurt in his house and he lets her stay, she calms down a bit, and he falls for her.
Before that, his juggling of 2 jobs in the same building makes for a little higher energy than not.
DS as the other boyfriend to MC is a different kind of kook, tolerating and encouraging MC, and interfering with her attempts to land EP. But he's no competition, unless she were to decide she wanted someone less aggressive. But given her level of aggression, that seems unlikely.
I hope we return to more singing in the final 3 films. Looking at the Soundtracks, I don't think I'm getting my wish. And I think I'll skip the non-musical where he only sings the title song, likely over the credit, and it's a western.
MGM, dir. Taurog; 6-
