Year: 1965
Age: 30
Movie: 18th
Ah Tickle Me, I’m so torn with this one, it has some really great songs, but it’s a bit silly, but fun silly…soooo I enjoy it. Elvis starts off by singing Long Lonely Highway, which I think was actually meant for Roustabout and was cut. Very cool song that one. Elvis was 30 when filming this one, and you can see a tiny bit of weight when he gets off the bus. But that’s what happens when your 30. He plays Lonnie a rodeo rider, out of work he sings to earn a crust. The girls love it and their guys hate it, you know how that goes…fight (with Red West) fired, hired by a gorgeous lady…and off to the Circle Z Ranch. The boys will enjoy this movie a fair bit, starting with the girls doing their stretches. Oh so many shapely girls!!
Haha just watching the scene in the pool with Brad teaching a lady to swim, remember those swimming caps with all the flowers on them.
Lonnie keeps singing, and the girls are all very distracted. Lonnie is singing I’ve Got A Dirty Dirty Feeling, oh look the first use of the Gangdam Style dance, another Elvis first. Oh Lol this scene is hilarious, complete with the horse sing at the end of the song.
Elvis didn’t record a new album for this movie, instead he sung songs that had already appeared on earlier albums and previously unreleased songs.
Lonnie rescues Pam from the hooded bad guy, in a very dramatic fight scene. The hooded man demanded the letter that Pam’s grandfather left her…the directions to a stash of gold…cue dramatic music!
Pam goes to the nearest deserted ghost town to attempt to find the treasure, with Lonnie attending uninvited. The one of the strangest scenes…dream sequence back in the wild west, it’s quite funny though.
Apparently they have the same pay phones at each different rodeo. Pam won’t take Lonnie’s calls. They all end up at the ghost town where it is very sunny and there’s lots of thunder??? Moving on…they’re stuck there because of the thunder storm, then it becomes an episode of Scooby Doo…people in masks and an old lady in a rocking chair that keeps disappearing, fake exits, secret compartments…you get it? Stanley accidentally finds the treasure, of course. Lonnie and Val get married and drag Stanley off to their honeymoon.
Co Stars Alive: Julie Adams YEP
Jocelyn Lane YEP
Jack Mullaney NOPE
My Favourite Song: It’s A Long Lonely Highway
Most Popular Song: Such An Easy Question
Stay tuned for Day 19 of ELVIS MONTH
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Ruby, I so enjoyed your review of Fun in Alcapulco that I was delighted when finding this post regarding Tickle Me. One must admit, the titles of his movies alone can be entertaining. I have often thought that it was wrong that older men with an Elvis Presley axe to grind were those who critiqued his movies. Where they were concerned, he could do no right. It was so ironic that Elvis movies kept the studio and Hal Wallis solvent so that Wallis could run off and make the movies that he wanted. In that respect, Wallis and Parker were two peas in a pod. The exploitation of Elvis was a very real thing that led to a great sadness. Having said that, we now have Elvis, singing, dancing and kissing in many flicks, all for for us to critique this many years after his passing. I personally can not get enough of this beautiful man even though as I watch him I am also imagining him in roles similar to James Bond, Indiana Jones or Batman.
As for Tickle Me, my favorite song is “It Feels So Right”. I loved Stanley, his little side kick and I love any movie that calls upon Elvis to exercise his comedic timing. Anyone who knew him reports that in addition to all, he was naturally a funny guy. Did anyone notice that Jocelyn Lane wore Ursula Andres dress? My favorite scene was when Elvis runs back and forth between Stanley and Jocelyn who are afraid. I also love that Jocelyn Lane later became a Spainish princess. Elvis deserved a princess.