ELVIS AT THE DRIVE-IN (Double Feature)

Screening Time: Saturday, May 3, 8:00 PM, Bengies Drive-In

Put on your blue suede shoes, hop in your pink cadillac, and head on out to Bengies Drive-In for a night of Elvis movies. See a double feature under the stars on the biggest screen on the East Coast, and because you never know who will show up, we’ll leave a ticket for The King at the ticket booth.

FOLLOW THAT DREAM

Director: Gordon Douglas

Cast: Elvis Presley, Arthur O’Connell, Anne Helm, Joanna Moore, Jack Kruschen

Country: U.S.
Year: 1962
Running Time: 111 minutes
Format: 35mm

In 1962’s Follow that Dream, Elvis plays the unfortunately named Toby Kwimper. When he and his pop are travelling through the Florida Keys with the plucky orphans they are caring for, their car breaks down. The group decides to set up a community on the unclaimed roadside land. Everything is fine until the mob decides to set up a gambling operation and the state supervisor sends a sexy social worker in to try to take away the orphans. Features the songs “What a Wonderful Life,” “I’m not the Marrying Kind,” and the title song.

 

CLAMBAKE

Director: Arthur Nadel

Cast: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Will Hutchins, Bill Bixby

Country: U.S.
Year: 1967
Running Time: 100 minutes
Format: 35mm

Elvis is Scott Heyward, an oil-heir millionaire playboy who switches places with a water-skiing instructor to see if girls will like him for himself, and not just for his father’s money. He quickly falls for Dianne Carter (Fabares), but her focus is on a wealthy boat racer (Bixby), and she has no desire to waste her time with a “penniless” ski instructor. To impress her and win her heart, Elvis decides to fix up an old speedboat and win the regatta. Features the title song and “You Don’t Know Me” among others.

 

--Dan Krovich

Print Source: MGM

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