Movie review – Elvis#23 - “Easy Come Easy Go” (1967) **

Elvis moves were one of the most conservative of the 60s – they started to swing a little by this stage, but not a lot. There’s slightly groovier fashions and hair, jokes about hippies (Elsa Lancaster as a yoga instructor) and expressions like “dig”, but Elvis is still in the services hanging out with his mates getting up to uninspired adventures.

He’s a frogman about to get out of the navy when he discovers a sunken ship which possibly has treasure. Another couple wind up after it as well, as does a hippie girl whose grandfather owned the ship, so at least this has a decent amount of conflict. There’s also a lot of cheap jokes about hippies and beatniks, double entrendes and dodgy gags, plus some pretty girls (Pat Priest - one time Marilyn Munster - and Dodie Marshall), character actors (Frank McHugh) and an underwater fight which is boring like most underwater fights. Some of the songs are OK although I wasn't surprised to learn the soundtrack was his lowest selling of all his soundtracks. Shame it couldn’t have at least been in an exotic location like Hawaii. This was Elvis' last movie with Hal Wallis.