Easy Come, Easy Go (1967 film)
| Easy Come, Easy Go | |
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| Directed by | John Rich |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
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| Starring | |
| Music by | Joseph J. Lilley |
| Cinematography | William Margulies |
| Edited by | Archie Marshek |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,000,000 |
| Box office | $1,950,000(US/ Canada)[1][2][3] |
Easy Come, Easy Go is a 1967 American musical film comedy starring Elvis Presley. Hal Wallis produced the film for Paramount Pictures, and it was his final movie for Elvis Presley. The film co-starred Dodie Marshall, Pat Harrington, Jr., Pat Priest, Elsa Lanchester and Frank McHugh. (It was McHugh's last feature film.) The movie reached #50 on the Variety magazine national box office list in 1967.[4]
Easy Come, Easy Go, Presley's twenty-third film, was released on March 22, a mere thirteen days before his twenty-fourth, Double Trouble.
Plot
Ensign Ted Jackson (Elvis Presley) is a former U.S. Navy frogman who divides his time between twin careers as a deep sea diver and nightclub singer. Ted discovers what he believes could be a fortune in Spanish gold aboard a sunken ship and sets out to rescue it with the help of go-go dancing yoga expert Jo Symington (Dodie Marshall) and friend Judd Whitman (Pat Harrington, Jr.). Gil Carey (Skip Ward), however, is also after the treasure and uses his girlfriend Dina Bishop (Pat Priest) to foil Ted's plans.
Elvis sings six songs in the movie: the title song, "I'll Take Love", "Sing You Children", "You Gotta Stop", "Yoga Is as Yoga Does" in a duet with Elsa Lanchester, and "The Love Machine".
Cast
- Elvis Presley as Ted Jackson
- Dodie Marshall as Jo Symington
- Pat Priest as Dina Bishop
- Pat Harrington, Jr. as Judd Whitman
- Skip Ward as Gil Carey
- Sandy Kenyon as Schwartz
- Frank McHugh as Captain Jack
- Ed Griffith as Cooper
- Read Morgan as Ensign Tompkins
- Mickey Elley as Ensign Whitehead
- Elaine Beckett as Vicki
- Shari Nims as Mary
- Diki Lerner as Zoltan
- Robert Isenberg as Artist
- Elsa Lanchester as Madame Neherina
Production
Paramount originally intended to make a movie called Easy Come Easy Go starring Jan and Dean with director Barry Shear but it was cancelled when the stars and several crew were injured in a train crash.[5]
Soundtrack
References
- ↑ "Big Rental Films of 1967", Variety, 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.
- ↑ "Easy Come, Easy Go, Worldwide Box Office". Worldwide Box Office. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ↑ "Easy Come, Easy Go, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ↑ Adam Victor, The Elvis Encyclopedia. Overlook, 2008.
- ↑ MOVIE CALL SHEET: Train Wreck Derails Film Martin, Betty. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 11 Aug 1965: d12.
External links
- DVD Reviews
- Review of the movie collection "Lights! Camera! Elvis! Collection (King Creole, Blue Hawaii, G.I. Blues, Fun in Acapulco, Roustabout, Girls! Girls! Girls!, Paradise, Hawaiian Style, Easy Come, Easy Go) by Paul Mavis at DVD Talk, August 6, 2007.
- Review by Jeff Rosado at digitallyOBSESSED!, March 4, 2003.
