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Harum Scarum

 

Harum Scarum

 

Harum Scarum (released in Europe as Harem Holiday) is a 1965 musical comedy film starring Elvis  which was shot on the original Cecil B. DeMille set from the film The King of Kings. Some of the film was based on Rudolph Valentino's The Sheik released in 1921. The film reached #11 on the Variety national weekly box office chart, earned $2 million at the box office, and finished #40 on the year end list of the top-grossing films of 1965. 

                                   

Tickle Me

 

 

Tickle Me

 

Tickle Me is a 1965 Western musical comedy film starring Elvis  as a champion rodeo bull-rider and bronco-buster.

Presley won a 1966 Golden Laurel Award as the best male actor in a musical film for his role in this comedy. It is also the only Elvis film released by Allied Artists Pictures. It singlehandedly saved the Allied Artists studio from financial collapse, Tickle Me helping to avert bankruptcy with one of the songs from its recycled soundtrack, "(Such an) Easy Question", which was a Top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart in July, 1965. The film would eventually make $5 million at the box office.

The screenplay was written by Elwood Ullman and Edward Bernds, who had written The Three Stooges film shorts and theatrical films as well as film scripts for The Bowery Boys.

The film was first released onto the home video market in the VHS format in the early 1980s in a limited version from Allied Artists Home Video. It was issued again by CBS/Fox video in 1985, 1987 and 1992. Its final VHS issue was from Warner Home Video in 1997. In the summer of 2007, the film was released for the first time on DVD, in the wide-screen letterbox format.
This is the only movie for which Presley did not record a new soundtrack; all songs had been recorded between 1960 and 1963 and already released

                                                 

Girl Happy

 

Girl Happy

 

Girl Happy is a 1965 American musical romantic comedy in the beach party film and spring break style, starring Elvis Presley. This, his 18th feature, was the last mega-successful Elvis Presley film at the box office, finishing at #25 on the Variety year-end top-grossing films of 1965 chart and making $3 million, although all of his subsequent films would still be profitable. The movie won a fourth place prize Laurel Award in the category Top Musical of 1965.The movie featured the Top 40 Billboard hit "Puppet on a String", which reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, #3 on the Adult Contemporary chart and in Canada, and was certified Gold by the RIAA.

Although MGM presented Girl Happy as a beach party film ("Elvis brings his beat to the beach!" "Elvis jumps with the campus crowd to make the beach 'ball' bounce!") and while Presley had previously appeared shirtless in films prior to this, he never appears without a shirt at anytime throughout his many scenes at the pool and on the beach in Florida, wearing long sleeves for most of the film - even while water-skiing.

Alternate titles considered were The Only Way to Love and Girl Crazy. Joe Pasternak had produced the similar spring break movie Where the Boys Are, which was also set in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1960.

This would the first of three movies in which Shelley Fabares would co-star with Elvis. Dan Haggerty, who plays Charlie, would later appear in the The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams movie and TV series.

                                        

ROUSTABOUT

 

" ROUSTABOUT "

Roustabout reached #8 nationally at the box office in 1964 based on the Variety survey. The film finished as #28 on the year-end list of the top-grossing movies of 1964 and earned $3 million at the box office.

While the New York Times declined to review the film, Variety was lukewarm, faulting mainly the script, but noted the film would likely be a box-office hit based upon its star names, songs, and Technicolor, Techniscope qualities. The performances of the cast and the selection of music in the movie were praised. Presley insisted on doing his own stunt work, including a fight scene in which he incurred a head wound. Since a motorcycle accident had been filmed, it was decided to write the head wound into the script. The film and soundtrack would be Presley's first work following the arrival of The Beatles.

The film generated a best-selling soundtrack album that went #1 on the Billboard charts.

                                                                   

VIVA LAS VEGAS

 

"VIVA LAS VEGAS"

 Filmed before Kissin' Cousins. Elvis had an off-screen romance with his co-star Ann-Margret. This would be Presley's most successful film at the box office, returning more than $9 million to MGM on an investment of less than $1 million due to the dynamic combination of Presley, Ann-Margret and David Winters' choreography. Winters' first of four films he choreographed for Elvis. Box office receipts of $9,442,967 surpassed the returns of The Beatles' first movie which premiered two months after 'Viva'. Due to the film going over-budget, Colonel Tom Parker would slash the budgets for all the remaining films in Presley's career. 

In Great Britain, both the movie and its soundtrack were sold as Love In Las Vegas, since there was another, different movie called Viva Las Vegas that was being shown in British cinemas at the same time that Presley's was released.

"Little Church of the West," the oldest Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, is the location used in the closing scene.

The scene where Presley sings Viva Las Vegas is performed in one single unedited shot - the only known example of such a technique in Presley's movie career.

                                                               

                                        

Kissin' Cousins

 

 

Kissin' Cousins

 

Kissin' Cousins is a 1964 musical film comedy starring Elvis Presley in two roles, one as an American soldier, the other a hillbilly.

The screenplay was nominated in the category of best written American musical by the Writers Guild of America. The film reached #11 on the Variety national box office chart, earned $3 million at the box office, and finished at #26 on the year end list of the top-grossing movies of 1964. The title single from the soundtrack reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold by the RIAA. There were two different title songs used in the movie.

The film made its home video debut in 1988, being released on VHS. When it was reissued on VHS in 1997, the song "Smokey Mountain Boy" was deleted. It was eventually reinstated back into the film when it made its DVD debut in 2007.