After the Civil War, Confederate soldiers Clint and Vance Reno steal a Union payroll, leading to conflict when the younger marries the woman his older brother loves.
One of the few Elvis movies that feels like an actual movie. Just for clarity, Love Me Tender still isn't an enjoyable experience. My headline is more of a reflection on other Elvis Presley movies than it is Love Me Tender. There is no real need to see this outside of the challenge of watching every Elvis movie. It is a fairly run of the mill love triangle set against the back drop of the civil war. The plot, for those that are curious, is focused on Richard Egan returning from the American Civil War having fought for the Confederacy and stolen some money from the not traitor side of that conflict. He finds that his wife has remarried, to Elvis, as she was under the belief Richard Egan had died. Thus the drama unfolds. If we're going to acknowledge the key positive here, it's that an Elvis movie actually has some character conflict, but it is with all the passion of Michael Owen on Gardner's Question Time. In some senses it is the advantage of the film that Elvis is not the le
