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Director Gordon Douglas’s 1962 musical romantic comedy is a slushy vehicle for Elvis Presley, with five unmemorable songs. Presley as Toby Kwimper? I don’t think so! Charles Lederer’s slack screenplay is taken from Richard C […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1962 movie Kid Galahad is the Elvis Presley musical remake of director Michael Curtiz’s famous 1937 prize-fighter movie Kid Galahad, in which Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as the promoter […]
Director Philip Dunne’s 1961 film drama Wild in the Country marks the moment when playwright Clifford Odets takes on Elvis Presley as interpreter of his literate screenplay based on the 1958 novel The Lost Country […]
The smooth 1963 musical comedy film It Happened at the World’s Fair stars Elvis Presley and Gary Lockwood as crop-duster plane fliers, and Joan O’Brien as Elvis’s girlfriend, with Kurt Russell in his film debut. […]
Director Richard Thorpe delivers a fair fun 1963 vehicle for Elvis Presley, who stars as Mike Windgren, a circus trapeze artist high-flyer with a fear of heights. So, with the help of little boy Raoul […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1961 musical romantic comedy Blue Hawaii stars Elvis Presley as Chadwick ‘Chad’ Gates, a just-demobbed soldier who returns to Honolulu. Mum wants him to follow in his father’s footsteps and take over management […]
Just a couple or so of times, Elvis Presley had great film directors to work for and here he is in his third film, which is perhaps his best movie, working with the legendary Oscar-winning […]