Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

georgewilliamnoble Only Elvis fans, and big ones at that would probably be the only viewers willing to give this musical comedy burlesque a spin. Made cheaply on the MGM lot it is a fantasy with songs about an American movie star who gets caught up in a plot to assassinate the king of a ancient Arabian kingdom. The plot is the sort of thing that worked for Rudolph Valentino, so why not Elvis?. No one is really taking any of this movie seriously least of all the star while his co stars are happy just to be working. Like all the Elvis movies of the 60's this made money despite very weak production values and timid list of songs, except for one "So Close Yet So Far" written by Joe Byers this is one of the least known most under rated songs ever to be recorded by Elvis, and it has long been a big favourite with me. Watched with a sense of humour "Harum Scarum" known to us in the UK as "Harem Holiday" the title of the opening song, this is a terrible movie so bad that it must be one of history's greatest bad movies, and brilliantly entertaining for being just that, it really is a hoot. I love It!

lb637 One only has to watch this sorry-excuse-for-art (film and movie-making is an art form...or it used to be) and be an eye-witness to the greatest cultural icon in American history self destruct before your very eyes. So many interviews are out there where the King talks about his Hollywood career as "just a job". And that's what we have with 'Harum Scarum'...just a job. And the blame falls clearly on the shoulders of the King himself. You see, Elvis credited Parker with his 50s success and saving his career after 2 years serving our nation honorably in military service. But after his return and he picked right up where he left off, He outgrew Parker and SHOULD HAVE FIRED HIM! There were rumours at the time that Brian Epstein was negotiating to buy the King's contract. Can you imagine what Elvis would have become had he been managed by Brian?? But instead, it all came down to Parker's greed and Elvis' undying virtue called loyalty. If you look at Hollywood as a place where art is created (or should be), then don't waste your time with this bilge. Just as an example: Elvis is running away from the assassins and you SEE smoke from gunfire (nearly point-blank range) but no gunshot sounds. And the King was so disgusted with the songs he even walked out of the recording studio after multiple takes of a stupid song called "Shake Your Tamborine". An American tragedy indeed. No wonder he used to look out at LA for his California home and tell his Memphis hanger-ons, "this whole town in laughing at me"

AndrewGHickey Now this was something, not really a good something but it was something nonetheless. Being a novice when it comes to the filmic work of 'The King' I approached this film and his others from a fresh perspective. I guess I was put off by the stigma of corniness that plagues his filmography. After checking out Jaihouse Rock, Paradise Hawaiian Style and Spinout I thought I'd give this relative b-movie a look.I enjoyed the pseudo middle eastern soundtrack and expected the visual equivalent here, which essentially is what I got. The faux parody element of the film falls by the wayside pretty quick unfortunately and ultimately becomes another vehicle for Elvis' kung-fu, romancing and spontaneous song performances. Shake Your Tambourine and So Close So Far are the performance highlights and there is some overlooked snappy dialogue. The less said about the creepy Hey Little Girl sequence though the better. My favourite song, the Garage-lite Animal Instinct was sadly not featured in the film.Its universally looked at as the bottom of the barrel in the career of Elvis but I think its a pretty fun 80 mins or so, there are far worse movies out there.

MARIO GAUCI Usually, I am partial to Arabian Nights-type romps but, unfortunately, Elvis had better stuck to karate as the few, weak swashbuckling scenes he has in this film show that he is clearly no fencer and, what’s worse, this is undoubtedly the silliest vehicle I’ve seen of his so far, with a meaningless title to boot (no wonder it was changed to HAREM HOLIDAY – also the name of one of the tunes Presley sings in the film – in the U.K.); I guess the fact that the same writer-producer-director team who brought us the dismal KISSIN’ COUSINS (1964) was also behind this one should have been fair warning...The songs are all below-par and, lazily, there isn’t any attempt to give them the expected ethnic touch; one of them even has the star singing as a reflection in a pool imagined by the heroine – a Sultan’s daughter, naturally! As usual with this type of film, the villainess is far more interesting than the heroine but the sheer obviousness of the true identity of the duplicitous villain (Michael Ansara as the Sultan’s brother) is no help either. The would-be jokes involving the clash of cultures generally fall flat and Elvis’ annoying cohorts – a smarmy beggar and ubiquitous dwarf-thief Billy Barty – offer little respite from the generally desperate air of the whole production.