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Follow That Dream: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Helm, Joanna Moore. A family of ragtag vagabonds sets up a makeshift home on a Florida beach after becoming marooned there, prompting an uptight local bureaucrat to attempt to evict them.
Follow That Dream is a 1962 American musical comedy film made by Mirisch Productions and starring Elvis Presley. The film was based on the 1959 novel Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard P. Powell. Producer Walter Mirisch liked the film's song "Follow That Dream" and retitled the picture accordingly.
Imagine The Beverly Hillbillies as homesteaders on the coast of Florida with Elvis in the Jethro role and you've got a pretty fair description of Follow That Dream (1962). Elvis plays Toby Kwimper, a homeless army veteran who settles down with his father and four orphans on a stretch of beach where they can operate a fishing business.
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Pop Kwimpel (Arthur O'Connell), son Toby (Elvis Presley) and their ragtag clan of adopted orphans wind up marooned on the side of the road in Florida, so they set up a makeshift home on the...
- Musical
Luckily ‘Follow That Dream’ was still a fresh chance for Elvis to try out his relaxed comedic style of acting and without the added pressure of too many soundtrack songs. Filmed almost entirely on location in Florida it is one of Elvis’ best films.
When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading.
