ELVIS: THE MGM SET!(2007):

Four movies by Elvis from MGM:

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

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

This has some really great co-stars in it, including
Harry Morgan(M.A.S.H., Dragnet), and Donna Douglas
(The Beverly Hillbillies!)! It is quite short even for
an Elvis movie(87 minutes), and the pace makes it
seem even shorter!

Some really swinging numbers, including a really
nice tune, Please Don't Stop Loving Me, and the
title song is great! The movie is really just an
enactment of the song itself! A lot of fun! B+

From another reviewer at IMDb.com:

Frankie and Johnny wasn't half bad as Elvis pictures
go- which means it was half- watchable as a movie
and not just a typical kitchy vehicle to ogle the King.
The musical performances we're good and the sets and
costumes interesting-the high point in the film is
the last performance of Frankie and Johnny--Elvis
actually comes off pretty suave at times as a river
boat gambler and his character played well off a
nubile, young Donna Douglas. Harry Morgan does
a good job as Elvis' older, more wary sidekick and
the rest of the cast work well and don't detract/subtract
from the main action which is of course- Elvis. Not
a bad way to kill an afternoon or round off an
evening of insomnia. - juliano66

For a more serious movie, this isn't bad really! I
had my reservations about this. It turned out
much better than I expected, with enough
lightness to make it entertaining! It hasn't a
lot of outstanding music, just enough to keep
it light! Charles Bronson plays his fight trainer,
and he turns in one of his best acting performances
that I've seen!

Some of the better songs include Home Is Where
The Heart Is, I Got Lucky, King Of The Whole Wide
World, This Is Living and I'm Riding The Rainbow! B

From another reviewer at Amazon:

Elvis Presley tries on boxing gloves for Kid Galahad,
one of his post-Army pictures that still has some
fresh air and innocence in it. First spotted crooning
from the back of a pickup truck, Elvis plays an ex-G.I.
newly returned to his foresty birthplace, where
shifty Gig Young runs a boxing camp. Naturally
the kid turns out to have talent with the gloves,
and a gamblers/mobsters/boxing formula soon
kicks in. Meanwhile, Elvis turns his attention to
Joan Blackman (from Blue Hawaii) and Young
resists making an honest woman of girlfriend
Lola Albright. Charles Bronson, who didn't get
on well with Elvis, has a hefty role as an
incorruptible trainer. The songs squeezed in
around this are humdrum, and even the best
ones can't accurately be described as rock &
roll. Director Phil Karlson, a dab hand at action
films (The Phenix City Story), gets some
savagery into the fight scenes, and the early
location work has a nice breezy feel. As for
Presley himself, the early signs of stupor are
beginning to be apparent; after the enjoyable
opening reel he lacks the old spirit, looking
understandably unengaged by the material
or his co-stars. --Robert Horton

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Music playing is:
Theme From Clambake
By: Elvis Presley