Follow That Dream

After years of only knowing about this Elvis Presley flick, I finally watched this with Mom right now. She thought it was weird with the setting staying in mostly one place and perhaps the behavior of a certain female social worker when giving Elvis the "word association" test. Also, there's less of Elvis singing and when he does, it definately looks and sounds like he's miming to his recordings. Still, Presley actually plays a character here as opposed to partially being himself as he acts both naive and perhaps a little smart and brave when his part calls for it. What else to say, well, the supporting cast is well chosen of which one of whom is Howard McNear who has appeared in quite a few of these Elvis pics. And director Gordon Douglas does quite well with the gags which isn't surprising since he started his career at Hal Roach Studios helming several Our Gang shorts and at least one Laurel & Hardy feature. So that's a recommendation for Follow That Dream.