This is a nearly unwatchable Elvis Presley movie...and I thought I could watch Elvis in just about anything. I met my match with this one.
Elvis sings a lot in this movie, using very little energy. He puts even less into the acting. The whole cast sounds like they're reading from the script.
"Hey Little Girl" was cute, and Elvis looks great, if somewhat expressionless. Movie stardom had started going real stale for him by this time. I understand that Colonel Parker negotiated a share of the film's profits, etc., but couldn't he have done that with better movies? Why was this magnificently talented man put through these films? At the tail end of Elvis' film career, there was an attempt to appeal to his maturing audience, and the scripts were better. But Harum Scarum, as if you can't figure out from the title, was in the middle. I like Viva Las Vegas, Girls, Girls, Girls, Change of Habit, Live a Little, Love A Little, Blue Hawaii, GI Blues, and of course King Creole and Jailhouse Rock. As the years went on, it seems like everyone cared less and less. You can't blame them with dreck like this.
I'll leave you with this - Mary Ann Mobley as a Mideast princess.
Elvis sings a lot in this movie, using very little energy. He puts even less into the acting. The whole cast sounds like they're reading from the script.
"Hey Little Girl" was cute, and Elvis looks great, if somewhat expressionless. Movie stardom had started going real stale for him by this time. I understand that Colonel Parker negotiated a share of the film's profits, etc., but couldn't he have done that with better movies? Why was this magnificently talented man put through these films? At the tail end of Elvis' film career, there was an attempt to appeal to his maturing audience, and the scripts were better. But Harum Scarum, as if you can't figure out from the title, was in the middle. I like Viva Las Vegas, Girls, Girls, Girls, Change of Habit, Live a Little, Love A Little, Blue Hawaii, GI Blues, and of course King Creole and Jailhouse Rock. As the years went on, it seems like everyone cared less and less. You can't blame them with dreck like this.
I'll leave you with this - Mary Ann Mobley as a Mideast princess.