ELVIS: LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE!(1968):
This has the distinction of being fairly mindless, not
any really great songs, and a few really great actors
in it! Sterling Holloway(Disney's Winnie The Pooh[Winnie
The Pooh], The Jungle Book[Kaa], Bambi[adult Flower],
Dumbo[the Stork], as well as the TV show Circus Boy!),
plays a milkman in this! There's also the great Rudy
Vallee, singer and actor! And Dick Sargent(Bewitched)
returning for his second Elvis movie(he was also in
Love Me Tender)!
Also in this is Eddie Hodges, really more well known
for his early 60's records(I'm Gunna Knock On Your
Door, Girls Are Made To Love), who was also in
the Disney movie Summer Magic as Haley Mills'
brother! And then there's Celeste Yarnall, who
was in the Star Trek TOS episode The Apple!
Although not phenomenal, this is not terrible!
It's got a Glinnis Johns look alike in Michelle
Carey, as the main squeeze, and a coupe of
known songs from Elvis(Edge Of Reality, A Little
Less Conversation)! B-
From another reviewer at Amazon:
This movie has it all -- Michelle Carey, Elvis,
changing times, psychedelic sequences (check
out the "Edge of Reality" bit -- the girls "morph"
*years* before the technology was invented!),
taboo subjects (sex, etc.), and the original
version of "A Little Less Conversation." It is a
true romantic comedy; had it never been made
with Elvis, and had been shot this year with Ben
Afleck and Cameraon Diaz, it would be a smash
hit! Actually, it was a pretty big hit in its own
time, even though it was one of Elvis's last three
or four movies. This film needs to be released
on DVD soon! Especially wonderful is the
widescreen version that airs on TNT every
now and then. Michelle Carey was incredible
-- I wish she was still around. The songs are
great (all 4 of them), and this movie, written
by the same dude that wrote "Private Lessons"
(1981), rises above the rest of the awful schlock
that Elvis concerned himself with for the
majority of the sixties. Relax, check it out,
and have a good time. - Nathan Sikes