LOVE ME TENDER
(20th Century-Fox) G Cert. | SINCE Elvis Presley is clearly meant to be its special attraction, Love Me Tender starts surprisingly as a modest and quite enjoyable piece about the return of three brothers from the American Civil War. It’s also of special interest as CinemaScope in black and white. This is very successful, for like many pieces that have been inflated by the full treatment, this one would have seemed pretentious in colour. Once the film leaves the farm where Vince Reno (Richard Egan) has found his sweetheart (Debra Paget) married to his younger brother (Elvis Presley)-a triangle that’s quite well handled- it’s much less satisfactory. Mr Presley is a rather unaftractive youth, but as a singer he’s tuneful, lively and not unpleasant, so long as the camera stays above waist level. His extraordinary gymnastics are another matter, and i you aren’t amused you may be shocked. I shan’t mount any moral high horse about it, but Jane Russell in The French Line didn’t get away with anything half so vulgar or suggestive. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 936, 19 July 1957, Page 21
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176LOVE ME TENDER New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 936, 19 July 1957, Page 21
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