Clambake

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Clambake

1967,

1h 39m,

Musical

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20%

5 Reviews

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61%

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61%

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A wealthy young man, Scott Heyward (Elvis Presley) wants to experience life outside his privileged upbringing. When he meets Tom Wilson (Will Hutchins), an earnest water-skiing instructor, Scott offers to trade places with him. As Tom warms up to the good life, Scott gets used to a less luxurious existence and falls for Dianne Carter (Shelley Fabares), who, ironically, is hoping to meet a rich man. Sticking to his humble guise, Scott tries to woo Dianne without the benefit of his true status.

Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Apr 22, 2019

The production numbers are more elaborate than usual, but Elvis' songs are as forgettable as ever, and the whole picture has a garish, cluttered look.

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Pat Padua

Spectrum Culture

Aug 11, 2020

The magic comes through, intermittently emerging from the shadows of failure.

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Tony Mastroianni

Cleveland Press

Nov 16, 2018

Clambake in story, dialog and songs is derivative; a stringing together of cliches that must have been cut out and pasted together from a number of other scripts.

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James Plath

Family Home Theater

Jan 16, 2018

B-

The premise is a fun riff on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.... but there's enough here to make the formula different and entertaining enough, even for contemporary families.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Aug 24, 2017

2/4

Clambake is indeed awful, but it's amusing and Presley's star power is hard to refute.

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Poe R

May 18, 2018

Actually I liked this movie. I generally liked the music and I like the fact that Elvis doesn't make women swoon but others do and he's trying to compete. I think there's a great deal of chemistry between he and the leading woman whereas there was none in other movies where they appeared together. He's quite intense in this movie when it's just killing him to watch her go off with another man.

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Hagrid R

Sep 18, 2017

Clambake is an okay film. It is about heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor. Elvis Presley and Will Hutchins give good performances. The screenplay is a little slow in places. Arthur H. Nadel did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the music and humor.

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Theodore L

Aug 19, 2017

This film is not high art, but it is nostalgic and it does feature the King. if you like Elvis and don't mind the odd cheesy musical, with Elvis filmed in front of a screen for most of the action shots, then you might like this candy-floss-popcorn Elvis film. formulaic but not bad.

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Arthur H. Nadel

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Elvis Presley

Scott Hayward

Shelley Fabares

Dianne Carter

Will Hutchins

Tom Wilson

Bill Bixby

James J. Jamison III

James Gregory

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Synopsis

A wealthy young man, Scott Heyward (Elvis Presley) wants to experience life outside his privileged upbringing. When he meets Tom Wilson (Will Hutchins), an earnest water-skiing instructor, Scott offers to trade places with him. As Tom warms up to the good life, Scott gets used to a less luxurious existence and falls for Dianne Carter (Shelley Fabares), who, ironically, is hoping to meet a rich man. Sticking to his humble guise, Scott tries to woo Dianne without the benefit of his true status.

Director: Arthur H. Nadel
Producer: Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner, Arnold Laven
Screenwriter: Arthur Browne Jr.
Production Co: Levy-Gardner-Laven
Genre: Musical
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Runtime: 1h 39m

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