I was never and Elvis fan, my mother would drag me to the cinema to see all his awful films with those dreadful songs, put me off him for life.
However I had ever heard of this one, this is the film he should have made first and kept on making ones like it instead of the aforementioned musicals. Elvis always wanted to be a serious actor but the overbearing Colonel Tom Parker (who was never a Colonel but an illegal immigrant) stopped him.
OK not the best script or direction but Elvis did a good job, yes I could see Clint in the part instead as it was written for him. Nice to see Victor French who would later go on to star with Michael Landon in Little House and Highway to Heaven. Plus an early part for James B. Sikking later to be Lt Hunter in Hill Street Blues and Wishbone from Rawhide.
Bit over long, some plot holes but entertaining never the less.
However I had ever heard of this one, this is the film he should have made first and kept on making ones like it instead of the aforementioned musicals. Elvis always wanted to be a serious actor but the overbearing Colonel Tom Parker (who was never a Colonel but an illegal immigrant) stopped him.
OK not the best script or direction but Elvis did a good job, yes I could see Clint in the part instead as it was written for him. Nice to see Victor French who would later go on to star with Michael Landon in Little House and Highway to Heaven. Plus an early part for James B. Sikking later to be Lt Hunter in Hill Street Blues and Wishbone from Rawhide.
Bit over long, some plot holes but entertaining never the less.