Year: 1967
Director: John Rich
Country: US
Language: English
Easy Come, Easy Go (1967) was a Paramount film that was originally meant for surf rock musicians Jan and Dean in August 1965, but production was canceled following a serious accident involving Jan Berry and 13 others during a train wreck scene in early days of filming. Like in most Elvis pictures, there are a ton of women gawking over The King, surprisingly he is more money hungry than girl crazy in this one.
In Easy Come, Easy Go a frogman (Elvis Presley) working for the U.S. Navy dives for buried treasure.
In regards to the music, you'll have to go back five years to 1962's Kid Galahad to find less tunes. Aside from the goofy “Yoga Is As Yoga Does” duet with Elsa Lanchester, there isn't much of a soundtrack, not even a typical Elvis Presley ballad. It's no shock to see why the movie's soundtrack flopped critically and commercially. Released in “extended play” format, the six-tune package proved to be the worst selling non-Christmas record in Elvis’s career.
Elvis, as usual, comes off as charismatic despite probably hating these paint-by-numbers pictures that he had been churning out for a decade by now. I must admit that the cinematography by William Margulies is stunning, certainly he makes the underwater scenes look gorgeous. The sets are also well made and the cast is exquisite. Elvis' love interest is hot and certainly has great chemistry with The King.
Shallow and cheesy, but fairly enjoyable. The comic jab at the hippie lifestyle and late 60's social attitudes makes Easy Come, Easy Go a decent spoof with clever use of slapstick. It doesn't have a great script, no Elvis film will, but compared to messes like Paradise, Hawaiian Style, this picture is actually quite bearable. It's a pleasant Elvis surprise.
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