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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.
- (2.9K)
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Gordon Douglas
- 1962-04-11
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. [2] The film reached #5 on the Variety weekly Box ...
- $2.8 million (US/Canada)
- Hans J. Salter
- April 11, 1962 (USA)
- David Weisbart
Follow That Dream (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Sound Advice Counting receipts from their ad-hoc Florida fishing business, vagabonds Pop (Arthur O'Connell) and Toby (Elvis Presley) get schooled by semi-adopted Holly (Anne Helm), confirmed with a song by Bill Giant and Anna Shaw, in Follow That Dream, 1962.
- Gordon Douglas, Bert Chervin
- Elvis Presley
The massive financial success of the Hawaiian movie would, unfortunately, formularise almost every Elvis film from then on. 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.
Released: Apr. 11, 1962. Watch. Amazon Prime. Soundtrack. 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 beach. Soon, uptight local bureaucrat H. Arthur King (Alan Hewitt) orders them off the land, but ...
