Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

tilloscfc 'Loving You' was The King Elvis Presley's second movie (his first in colour) and is a decent fare, if a little dated for 2015, as you'd understandably expect. The film mirrors what was going on in Elvis' real career at that time. A rapid rise to fame, adoring female fans (their agitated boyfriends)and the songs in the film are really good, as are the cast. Interestingly, the lead female Delores Hart, quit the business a few years after this was made to become a nun, which she still is today. She also appeared opposite Elvis in 1958's 'King Creole'. All in all, although not one of MY personal favourite Elvis movies, 'Loving You' is regarded by most as one of The King's three stand out films, and you can see why.

tavm In honor of The King of Rock 'n' Roll's untimely death nearly 30 years ago, I've decided to check out some of his movies like this second one he made called Loving You. In this one, he plays Deke Rivers who was just making some deliveries when a woman (Lizabeth Scott) inquires if there's a singer around. Guess who gets picked! Along the way, Deke meets her bandleader ex-husband (Wendell Corey) and the female vocalist (Dolores Hart). The movie follows the road tours that lead to some big breaks despite some troubles with some teenage girls and their jealous boyfriends looking for a fight. Elvis shows great charisma throughout and has smoldering chemistry with Ms. Scott and a charmingly sincere one with Ms. Hart. It threatens to get corny at the end with a happy ending for all but it plays very believably for the more innocent time that it was filmed in. Certainly Loving You is more preferable to some of the more sillier movies he made in the 60s. Great songs like the title one and "Teddy Bear" abound. Look for Presley's parents, Gladys and Vernon, in the finale.

slapstck2000 Music wise you cant ask for better, and Elvis: acting is getting better, the dialogue is a bit corny in places but hey! this is 1957, what do ya expect, Lizabeth Scot , Wendel Corey especially Wendel Corey, this is Elvis; film but Corey steels the movie with his constant wise cracks and one liners, such as (Hey dog, you wanna go to longhorn with me?) and at the end (Lady maam, just call me Tex) I go into fits of laughter every time he says it, Wendel Corey was in The Rainmaker a year earlier, he was good, incidentally Elvis screen tested for that movie too, course he lost out but hey ya cant win em all! incidentally, guys i hope this isn't a spoiler more like a goof that was cleared up before the movie came out, in the Teddybear sequence its been said that it took 28 takes for Elvis to get it right!sign slapstck2000

James Hitchcock "Loving You" was Elvis's second film and tells the semi-autobiographical story of how Deke Rivers, a poor country boy from Texas, rises to fame and fortune as a rock star, and how he is loved by two women, his older business manager Glenda and a sweet young singer named Susan. (No prizes for guessing which of them eventually wins out). This plot, of course, is little more than an excuse for Elvis to sing a number of his hit songs, and not only plot, but also dialogue and characterisation, take second place to the music. (There is some inadvertent social comment about the attitudes of the period- although the action is set in Texas, a state with a sizeable black population, just about every face we see is white).One of the songs which Elvis sings in this film is "Teddy Bear", in which he declares that he would rather be his girlfriend's teddy bear than her lion or tiger. This put me in mind of what "Quinlan's Film Stars" said about him, speaking generally of his film career, namely that his films only rarely caught the electric arrogance that set audiences alight. On stage he may have been a lion or tiger, but in the movies he could be about as threatening as a teddy bear. This was particularly true of his later films from the sixties, bland family fare which probably seemed rather dated even when they came out."Loving You" comes form an earlier stage of his career when he, and rock-and-roll music in general, was frequently denounced by the moralists of the day as a menace to society and a threat to civilised values, and the script makes light-hearted reference to this controversy. The film is certainly livelier and better than some of the later entries in the Elvis canon, such as "Fun in Acapulco" or the particularly awful "Paradise Hawaiian Style", but even so it is still more teddy bear than tiger, with little in it to help us understand, two generations later, just why Elvis was so denounced- or, for that matter, why he was so adored by millions of fans. It makes for undemanding viewing, with some enjoyable music, but I suspect that it is unlikely to be loved today by anyone who is not already a die-hard Elvis fan. 5/10