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Follow That Dream

Comedy

Follow That Dream

GO! GO! GO! It's Free-Wheeling Fun!

6.1(48) 4/11/1962 1h 49m
Comedy

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 digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He, his son Toby and their 'adopted' children—Holly, Ariadne, and the twins—start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

Toby Kwimper

Arthur O'Connell

Arthur O'Connell

Pop Kwimper

Anne Helm

Anne Helm

Holly Jones

Joanna Moore

Joanna Moore

Alisha Claypoole

Jack Kruschen

Jack Kruschen

Carmine

Simon Oakland

Simon Oakland

Nick

Roland Winters

Roland Winters

Judge

Alan Hewitt

Alan Hewitt

H. Arthur King

Directed by

Gordon Douglas

Production

Reviews

Wuchak

6/10

11/10/2020

_**Elvis goes to backwoods Florida to set-up a makeshift home & business**_ A family of hicks from rural Georgia run out of gas on the northwest coast of the Florida peninsula and decide to homestead there. They have to deal with annoying bureaucrats and gangsters who run a mobile gambling ring. Elvis Presley, Anne Helm, Arthur O'Connell, Simon Oakland and Joanna Moore are all on hand. “Follow That Dream” (1962) was Elvis’ 9th movie of the 31 he did. I didn’t like it the first time I saw it because of the (seemingly) eye-rolling premise. Viewing it again after many years, I appreciated it more because (1) I knew it wasn’t supposed to be taken too seriously and (2) the movie, albeit farcical, does reveal interesting data on the concept of homesteading with the corresponding establis

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