ELVIS: EASY COME, EASY GO!(1967):
Not a terrible movie, just not a great selection of
music here! Elvis plays an ex-sailor who finds a
treasure in his last dive for the Navy and he decides
that he's going to try and recover it! Helping him out
is Pat Harrington(One Day At A Time) and others to
be decided later!
Kinda fun movie, but they could have picked a LOT
better song selection here! Elsa Lanchester must
have been very embarrassed by the song they selected
for her to sing! B-
From another reviewer at Amazon:
Not the worst Elvis picture, but not near the top, either.
This is the one with Elvis as a Navy frogman, diving
for sunken treasure--which means lots of underwater
photography (inspired by Thunderball, perhaps?).
What's fun about it is seeing Elvis collide with the
summer of love: he falls in with a beatnik buddy
(Pat Harrington in a goatee) and meets a commune
of artsy hippie types; they stage obscure "happenings,"
and Elvis calls 'em "kooks." It says something, though,
when the musical highlight is a number called "Yoga
Is as Yoga Does," staged in Elsa Lanchester's groovy
yoga class. E.P. looks indifferent to the proceedings,
an understandable reaction given the painful quality
of the comedy (especially the old sea salt who's never
been on water). The red Dodge convertible is sweet,
however. --Robert
Horton