ELVIS: CLAMBAKE!(1967)
The lovely Shelley Fabares shows up for the
third time in an Elvis movie! That alone is
reason enough to watch this! Elvis is tired of
being his rich daddy's son(sound familiar?) so he
trades places with another dude and takes over
as a ski instructor!
This also has Bill Bixby(TVs The Incredible Hulk),
who is another rich kid looking for fun and trying
to impress the girls!
As for the songs, the song Who Needs Money really
sucks!! However there are a couple of decent songs,
including A House That Has Everything, The Girl I
Never Loved and the beautiful You Don't Know
Me!
All-In-all, a pleasant movie and fun to watch! B
From another reviewer at Amazon:
Elvis's outfits are impressive in 1967's Clambake,
especially a groovy, belted sport coat and a
cream-colored suit covered with cowhide-style
stitching. The costumes are more creative than the
soundtrack, which is heavy with the mindlessness
of late-period Elvis movies. As he sings "Confidence"
(an obvious rip-off of the Oscar-winning "High Hopes"),
you can almost see Elvis batting out "Just shoot me"
in Morse code with his eyelids. The only decent
tune has the star crooning a nice, lonesome version
of the standard "You Don't Know Me." This one's set
in Florida, but with none of the scenic fun of his
Hawaii pictures. He plays a rich oilman's son
pretending to be a water-skiing instructor, with
Shelley Fabares (a three-time Presley costar) as
the girl. The camp highlight is an ensemble number
with go-go girls helping Elvis fix a speedboat,
which is just about as far from Sun Studios as
you can get. --Robert Horton