Hidden Gems of Classic Cinema
Year: 1968 Age: 33 Movie: 26th Ok, so Stay Away Joe, is a very different movie from the get go. Opening scene is Joe (Elvis) chasing cows with his car, and boy does he look like he is enjoying himself. This movie doesn't really get good reviews and I don't think I have ever really... Continue Reading →
Year: 1967 Age: 32 Movie: 25th Clambake we're gonna have a Clambake! Mega soon-to-be-richer Scott Hayward just wants to be loved for who he is, poor Scott, it's not enough to be super sexy and have a great voice but he wants love too? So he comes up with the age-old trick of swapping places... Continue Reading →
Year: 1967 Age: 32 Movie: 23rd (I've posted this one a little early...about 2 hours early, to sleepy to wait...I'm going to bed) Set in London and filmed in Hollywood. I was looking forward to this as much as Elvis was. I just find this movie has really missed the mark. I love some of... Continue Reading →
Year: 1967 Age: 32 Movie: 23rd The songs aren't nearly as good as in the last film (Spinout), we are heading into the last quarter of the 60's and things are starting to change. The fashions, the outlook, the music, the people, the everything. I have alway adored the title song, and I don't have... Continue Reading →
Year: 1966 Age: 31 Movie: 22nd In the titles you even get a section called "The Girls", well I suppose most Elvis movies could have one of these sections for convenience. It starts with Mike racing through the country side and being passed by, another Elvis movie regular...Shelley Fabares. Unfortunately their relationship gets off to... Continue Reading →
Aloha, Hawaii USA! Love that song and I love this movie. Elvis plays Rick a pilot this time. He has been fired again, all because of a woman...what a shocker. He is off to see he old buddy, Danny, and asks for a job, which he gets. We then get to meet the fabulous Donna... Continue Reading →
Year: 1966 Age: 30 Movie: 20th Set on a paddle steamer. Johnny entertains on the boat with Elly May Donna Douglas and Col. Sherman T. Potter Harry Morgan plays piano. Johnny just can't stop gambling and visits a fortune teller. She tells him his gal is bad luck and to try a red head. They all... Continue Reading →
Year: 1965 Age: 30 Movie: 18th Really was not looking forward to what I can safely say is the bottom of the barrel. Starts off with Elvis playing an actor/singer at the premier of his movie, Sands Of The Desert. Even that movie looks unappealing. He sings Desert Serenade, sounds a bit too fast and... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Year: 1965 Age: 30 Movie: 17th Starts off with the four boys in the band all dressed in Yellow, looking oh so cool and oh so 60's. Cliff Richard could have driven into this movie on his Summer Holiday and you wouldn't even notice. Rusty (Elvis) is assigned to look after the daughter of the... Continue Reading →
Year: 1964 Age: 29 Movie: 16th Sooo many fights in this one. Charlie is decked out in leather on a motorbike...I know nothing about motorbikes, but this one doesn't look real tough to me, anyway Charlie gets into his first fight at the teahouse. There are a few regulars in this one, Kenneth Barker, G.I... Continue Reading →
Year: 1964 Age: 29 Movie: 15th Well E is in the armed forces again, but this time we are going to mix it up a little for the audience...he's in the Air Force. The Army/Air Force want to build an ICBM base on Josh's kins mountain. They don't take kindly to their type up in... Continue Reading →
Year: 1964 Age: 29 Movie: 14th Welcome to Viva Las Vegas. If you've only seen one Elvis movie it may just be this one. Probably the most quoted and watched Elvis movie ever made. For good reason too. Ann-Margret is the co-star in this one and holds her own opposite Elvis. Known as the female... Continue Reading →
Year: 1963 Age: 28 Movie: 13th We open the title song, Fun In Acapulco, such a great feel already. Elvis is working on a boat with a troublesome young lady, (bum close up) when a band of seafaring mexicans happen to show up...I don't know why. E goes into town to visit the bar in... Continue Reading →
Year: 1963 Age: 28 Movie: 12th Mike and Danny fly a crop duster and thanks to Danny (not Elvis) they loose the plane, not that they can't find it, a bad bet lost the plane for them. So they start making their way to Seattle, hitching a ride with a lovely man and his neice... Continue Reading →
Year: 1962 Age: 27 Movie: 11th The only one of Elvis's feature films to be nominated for a Golden Globe award. Sun, surf, summer days and Girls! Girls! Girls! Groovy, catchy, and a load of sax. Fantastic title song. Elvis is on a charter boat with some clients pulling in a stock footage marlin. This... Continue Reading →
Year: 1962 Age: 27 Movie: 10th So guess who's out of the Army again? You guessed it...Elvis AKA Walter Gulick AKA Kid Galahad. Still looking pretty damn fine in his uniform and singing some pretty cool songs. Most people won't know them but lots will. Opening scene, Walter hitching a ride on the platform of... Continue Reading →
Year: 1962 Age: 27 Movie: 9th I love this movie. If you want a feel good fun movie to watch one afternoon while consuming a bowl of popcorn and having a dance around the lounge room, well this movie is IT! Follow That Dream has 5 good songs full of fun and innocence. So easy... Continue Reading →
Year: 1961 Age 26 Movie: 8th Oh thank God for Blue Hawaii, something a little more upbeat...we had Elvis committing manslaughter in Jailhouse Rock and Wild In The Country, assault with a deadly weapon in Love Me Tender (shot his Brother), was responsible for his Father's near death experience in King Creole (not to mention... Continue Reading →
Year: 1961 Age: 26 Movie: 7th OMG a fight scene in the first 3 seconds? Really? Well I must say he is getting better at fighting. More believable too. So when the fight is over he runs off and then he is in trouble with the law. I don't know what age he is meant... Continue Reading →
Year: 1960 Age: 25 Movie: 6th I have been looking forward to seeing this one again. It has been a few years. I've always loved this one, mainly because it's a western, it has E in it, and he is shirtless for quite a bit of the movie. In my opinion, this is Top 2... Continue Reading →
Year: 1960 Age: 25 Movie: 5th Oh yeah. G.I. Blues! In fine colour in a fine uniform. What a treat. They are all colour from here on. And we also get the fabulous Juliette Prowse. Just love her. Juliette and Ann Margaret are the top 2 without a doubt. Elvis is 25 years old here... Continue Reading →
Year: 1958 Age: 23 Movie: 4th Beautiful opening scene with the wet streets of New Orleans and songs about gumbo, which apparently is good enough to be in songs. Must find out what gumbo is...did find out what gumbo is and it looks pretty good. click on the above link for a recipe. Edith Head... Continue Reading →
Year: 1958 Age: 23 Movie: 3rd Ah Vince Everett in trouble over a girl, who would have seen that coming. And those juke boxes are great for catching Elvis fight victims. So off to jail for you young man. Which is really good for us, cause we get a few good songs and Vince gets... Continue Reading →
Year: 1957 Age: 22 Movie: 2nd Elvis gets his first on screen kiss. Second movie and the first one in colour. Beautiful, wonderous, 1957 colour. Just brings out the costumes, those Edith Head costumes. It doesn't take long to meet young Deke Rivers (Jimmy Thompkins) (Elvis) at the 5 min 30 mark he comes rockin... Continue Reading →
Year: 1956 Age: 21 Movie: 1st Love Me Tender is the only Elvis movie where he was not top billing. So this is Elvis' first movie. I just happen to love love love westerns, and love black and white movies too. 1956 was such a long time ago. 15 years before I was born, (having... Continue Reading →
Omg I can't believe I have never thought of this. Just an amazing idea! I was just having a quick look at Pinterest (said no one ever!) and saw this. I just couldn't go to bed without sharing this little gem of an idea. Now if you don't hear from me again it means I... Continue Reading →
Little Golden Books, doncha just love them? So many millions of people have these books included in their childhood memories, and because of that most of us buy our own children these great books. I really love that we can still buy many of the classics like, Poky Little Puppy and The Saggy Baggy Elephant.... Continue Reading →
Well this week the Glee kid died. Corey Monteith died. That will happen with heroin I suppose. Sometimes you just gotta wonder why, just selfish. I'm sure there are a shit load of people devastated by his actions. Soooo, anyway, I was stumbling the net the day after he died (I think) and found a... Continue Reading →
Something that has really annoyed me for the last 20 years or so is that whenever I walk into my room I can see under my bed. And of course I store things like bags of clothes, photo albums, documents etc etc under my bed. But I just had enough of looking at that shit... Continue Reading →
Abstract acrylic on canvas. I might actually get around to finishing this off one day... ♥♥♥ Just remember kids...I am not a photographer 🙂
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