Hidden Gems of Classic Cinema
Year: 1973 Age: 38 Movie: 35th Morse code starts this concert. For about 15 or so seconds, morse code and when I heard that sound I would come running to see...Aloha From Hawaii. Elvis arrives in a helicopter greeted by fans and leis, leis that almost cover his head. While waiting for the concert to... Continue Reading →
Year: 1972 Age: 37 Movie: 34th Not the best documentary out of the four (68, that's the way, aloha). It's a mix of concert footage, behind the scene footage and old stuff from the beginning. We see Elvis hanging out with his buddy's and with his Dad. Fills in a few minutes with photo's of... Continue Reading →
Year: 1970 Age: 35 Movie: 33rd Concert and rehearsals. We get it all, including a few bloopers. During the first rehearsal footage Elvis looks ike he needs a good rest. He doesn't look bad, quite the opposite actually, he just looks like he would really appreciate a good holiday. I am watching this with my... Continue Reading →
Year: 1969 Age: 34 Movie: 31st (I don't really understand this movie poster as the movie was set in the twenties and I don't recall Elvis having a gun in the movie at all). The Trouble With Girls (and how to get into it) starts off in black and white then changes to colour when... Continue Reading →
Year: 1969 Age: 34 Movie: 30th The armed stranger rides into town, and straight into your standard Mexican cantina. Jess Wade is tricked into coming to the cantina by those no good Hackett boys. Shots are exchanged and Jess takes cover behind you standard armoured card table. Jess is also wearing those leather cuffs/watch from... Continue Reading →
Year: 1968 Age: 33 Movie: 28th Wow, a very different feel straight away. We are heading into the 70's here. Elvis plays Greg Nolan, a newspaper photographer, and the first scene is Greg driving along the road and then the beach in his dune buggy. Hair all messed up, not something you see in many... Continue Reading →
Year: 1968 Age: 33 Movie 27th Strange beginning, in that, there is a scene before the opening credits. The title track is really good, love it. The opening credits shows, what I presume to be, cameos by actual speedway stars (actually, I do recognise Richard Petty). Love the cars they are about to race. If... 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 →
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 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: 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 →
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