ELVIS: FOLLOW THAT DREAM!(1962):
A cute little movie about Elvis, his dad, and four
"adopted" children trying to make their way through
the world! Not a real earth shaking movie, just fun!
Not many good songs here except the title song and
at the end a song called Angel! B
From another reviewer at Amazon:
Elvis hadn't dyed his hair a permanent midnight
black yet in Follow That Dream, which is another
way of saying this is still the point in his career
when he was making movies, not just Elvis Presley
vehicles. Elvis road-trips with his crabby,
anti-government pop (Arthur O'Connell) and an
adopted brood to a Florida beach, which by a
legal quirk they can homestead. The authorities
and some fairly unbelievable gangsters would
like to stop them. The songs are undistinguished
but not awful, the scenery is nice, and Elvis--looking
well-fed and relaxed--shows off good comedic
chops doing a dumb-guy shtick. Screenwriter
Charles Lederer and director Gordon Douglas
are a class act by Presley picture standards,
keeping the sitcom-style plot moving along.
No fancy clothes or cars in this one, just Elvis
and some beachcombing and an old git-tar,
and not a bad time-killer for all that. --Robert Horton