Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It is a performances centric movie

Good movie but grossly overrated

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Elvis' screen debut and he is not great... but the movie itself ain't too bad, except the huge error in geography -- this is a western portrayed with mountains and mountainous desert landscapes... but it takes place in Louisiana. Ummm, Mr. Director, ever been to Louisiana?! You could simply have looked in an encyclopedia at the time to see that Louisiana has NO terrain of the nature you chose to film around. NONE. Very bad. In any case, it sure was strange to see Elvis shaking' and twistin' in "1865." He had four songs and three were rockin' numbers, two with women swooning at him -- so out of place for this time period. His acting was stiff at times and so very plain. Really an amateur. But a decent western otherwise--The Kat Pirate Screener

Get rid of the swiveling hips and Elvis stage gyrations with the girls off stage and you have a very decent post Civil War tale of a family struggling in the aftermath of war..the title could have been Love Me Tender even before Elvis came aboard the project..as that was the central theme..girl waiting for her love to come home from the war and him coming home to find her we'd to his brother but still in love with him..OK..other actors were offered the Clint/Elvis part..Robert Wagner..Jeffery Hunter..and Cameron Mitchell..all contract players but they got Elvis and added songs to the production to take advantage of Presley's popularity at the time..so you end up with awkward moments in the film with Elvis being Elvis the entertainer..and with me wondering what a James Dean might have done with the role or even the other choices..Wagner,Hunter, or Mitchell..the facial expressions or voice inflections..but you have Robert Middleton,L.Q. Jones,Neville Brand, in support..and even Dick Sargent as a Confederate soldier..The leads are more than adequate..Richard Egan showing his emotions on his sleeve and trying not to..Deborah Paget as his true love..and her trying with little success to hide her true feelings..young James Drury and William Campbell as Reno family brothers and you have a family situation..a stolen military payroll at the end of the war..some jealousy..some greed..more than a little action..some really good dialogue..some good direction..just the right musical score for those perfect moments..and you have a nice,taut little film which is really quite good..if only you can dis-engage your mind from those songs and the Elvis stage scene..it's not that he was bad in the rest of the movie..he was well enough for the part which was originally meant to be a minor role..but he was popular enough for the film to make back it's production costs in only 3 days..but get by the music and enjoy a pretty good story..it is well told otherwise..

"Love Me Tender" was filmed as "The Reno Brothers" and was a solid western drama concerning a train robbery by Confederates before word got around that the war was over. At issue is the cash from a Union payroll. The film was well written and the acting was universally solid. This was Richard Egan's and Debra Paget's movie; with Elvis Presley in a supporting role as Egan's hot headed kid brother.Therein lies the only fault with this picture. The lines of moviegoers stretched around Loew's huge and beautiful (3485 seat) Capitol Theater were wanting more of Elvis -- the nation's biggest star -- than the 4 songs in this movie. The assignment for Elvis was to play Egan's younger and immature kid brother, so (guess what?) Elvis comes across as young and immature. In 1956 he was faulted for bad acting, which was a bum rap.Any Civil War movie benefits from being told from the Confederate side, as we were the good guys and the best fighters. With 2 to 1 odds in numbers, we took down 2 blue-bellies for every johnny-reb that fought. Sixty-five percent of the Civil War casualties were Union. But anyway "Love Me Tender" isn't so much a Civil War movie as a post Civil War movie. Just don't get me started about Yankees, that's all.

Love Me Tender is a supremely stupid movie, but one that has a certain appeal for nostalgists and lovers of drive-in level plotting and acting (not to mention Elvis fanatics who want to see him before he became a Viva Las Vegas cliché).There's no point in talking about the story itself--who would ever have thought the Post Bellum South looked so much like the hills where the TV show MASH was shot--and there is a whole rebel-whooping crowd of professional actors (except the ridiculous Debra Paget) who have to run blocker for the 22-year-old boy with a great, great voice and charisma, so why should you watch Love Me Tender the next time it shows on AMC?Cuz it's Elvis, singing the title song, the prettiest single piece of music he ever performed.