Fabian in tight jeans looks really good, and that's the best that I can say about his acting. This is another 20th Century Fox down home musical with a rock twist, along the lines of "April Love" and the later remake of "State Fair" with unmemorable songs but well performed by Fabian when he breaks out singing. The songs have enough of an upbeat to mix country and western with rock and roll, and none of them are memorable, but Fabian certainly looks handsome singing them. He's surrounded by better actors like Arthur O'Connell, Betty field, Carol Lynley, Edgar Buchanan, Stuart Whitman and Jane Darwell, still hanging in there are nearly twenty years after playing Ma Joad.
Fabian is the son of O'Connell and Field, and older brother of precocious Dennis Holmes who goes on a fishing trip with Fabian and pal Whitman, with the approval of dad but not mom. Not really much of a plot outside of the adventures which does indeed involve a hound dog who always seems to be in trouble. There's a big square dance sequence which results in a few dance numbers, and of course the obligatory romance between Fabian and Lynley. No classic but pleasant and inoffensive. Dodie Stevens is the sexy femme fatale, providing pretty much the only conflict in this.
Fabian is the son of O'Connell and Field, and older brother of precocious Dennis Holmes who goes on a fishing trip with Fabian and pal Whitman, with the approval of dad but not mom. Not really much of a plot outside of the adventures which does indeed involve a hound dog who always seems to be in trouble. There's a big square dance sequence which results in a few dance numbers, and of course the obligatory romance between Fabian and Lynley. No classic but pleasant and inoffensive. Dodie Stevens is the sexy femme fatale, providing pretty much the only conflict in this.