The Elvis Presley Tribune | Movies 1967

Easy Come, Easy Go
Released: 1967 Paramount Pictures Available on VHS & DVD Fun Fact: this movie almost never occurred because of all the fighting between Elvis and director John Rich on the script and songs, the same can be said for Colonel and Hal Wallis. ------------------------------------------------------------ Elvis Presley plays a Navy frogman, who later as a civilian dives for buried treasure. Dodie Marshall plays a disco dancer and yoga student that ends up helping the former frogman. Pat Priest plays a playgirl that ensues the aid of her boyfriend (Skip Ward) to try and foil the recovery of the treasure chest. Pat Harrington plays the owner of a little club where he lets Elvis sing.
Double Trouble
Released: 1967 MGM Pictures Available on VHS & DVD *Fun Fact: Annette Day's (18) first movie was Double Trouble. At the end of shooting Elvis gave her a Mustang as a congrats gift.* ------------------------------------------------------------ Guy Lambert (Elvis Presley) is the leader of a small combo touring Europe. In London, a wealthy heiress falls in love with the singer. Annette Day plays Jill Conway who is sent away to Belgium to keep her away from Lambert and finding out her uncle (John Williams) is trying to steal her inheritance. Guess who ends up singing in Belgium? More trouble arises when Lambert is suspected of jewel smuggling. Nine songs try to save this movie. The better tunes are "Baby, If You Give Me All Your Love", "City By Night" and "Long Legged Girl".
Clambake
Released: 1967 MGM Pictures Available on VHS & DVD Fun Fact: Elvis became so tired of the same script that, prior to this movie, he gained much weight, became heavily depressed and knocked his head on the bathroom sink, leaving him with a concussion. ------------------------------------------------------------ The heir to an oil fortune Scott Hayward (Elvis) trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money. After finding love in the beautiful Shelley Fabares (again) Scott must win her affection at the same time he is trying to win a boat race.
Stay Away, Joe
Released: 1968 MGM Pictures Available on VHS Fun Fact: Katy Jurado played Elvis' step-mother in this film. Before shooting, she broke a few toes, but took the cast off when shooting began. Watch her closely when you see the movie, she limps! ------------------------------------------------------------ Joe Lightcloud (Elvis Presley) returns home after a successful run on the rodeo circuit. He intends to raise cattle for the U.S. government with his father (Burgess Meredith). Beer chugging, brawling and girl chasing are colorful parts of a welcome home barbecue. Elvis is slim, tanned; happy and charming. He sings "All I Needed Was The Rain" and the title tune. Try to forget the scene in which he sings to the bull!!! This fun romp of a movie also stars Joan Blondell, Thomas Gomez, Katy Jurado and L.Q. Jones. Quentin Dean is superb as the dim witted sex pot that is starving for Joe.
Speedway
Released: 1968 MGM Pictures Available on VHS & DVD Fun Fact: Nancy Sinatra co-starred with Elvis. It was the first time there was a solo other than Elvis on the soundtrack! ----------------------------------------------------------- Elvis Presley sings his way around the race circuit as successful speedway driver Steve Grayson. All is fine and dandy until the tax return submitted by a wise-cracking Bill Bixby (as Steve's manager) is scrutinized by the IRS. Will Elvis be able to raise the $145,000 to pay his tax bill? Will he succeed with his advances to IRS inspector Nancy Sinatra?
Live A Little, Love A Little
Released: 1968 MGM Pictures Available on VHS *Fun Fact: Elvis' first swearing role. This was a comedy filled with nothing but sex and laughs!* ------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Nolan meets Bernice, and loses both his job and his apartment. However, Bernice manages to get him a new apartment, but it is so expensive that he has to get two full-time jobs. Nolan has trouble finding time to do both jobs. The song A Little Less Conversation was remixed and became a number one hit in many countries around the world after being used in a Nike commercial in 2002.
Charro!
Released: 1969 National General Available on VHS & DVD *Fun Fact: this would be the only film in Elvis' movie career that would not have him singing on camera.* ------------------------------------------------------------ Elvis fans were shocked when the publicity stills of Charro were released showing a bearded Elvis for the first time. Jess Wade is innocently accused of having stolen a cannon from the Mexican revolutionary forces. He tries to find the real culprits, a gang of criminals. A boisterous outlaw he must break free from the notorious gang he once ran with in order to complete his reformation. The gang is not about to let him go that easily, though. It seems there are some old scores to settle.
The Trouble With Girls
Released: 1969 MGM Pictures Available on VHS & DVD Fun Fact: this movie was going to come out in 1959, then 1960, and 1964 with names like Dick Van Dyke, Glenn Ford and Hope Lange all signing at one time to do it with Elvis. ------------------------------------------------------------ Walter Hale (Elvis Presley) is the manager of a traveling show, a Chautauqua, in the 1920's. Amongst the entertainment, trouble starts to develop. Hale is troubled by a Worker's Union rep, played by the gorgeous Marlyn Mason. A college girl played by Nicole Jaffe, wants to go on the road with the show. And a female citizen kills a man in self defense only to become the highlight of the Chautauqua. A cigar smoking Elvis, dressed in white sings a few novelty tunes and the hit song, "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". This comedy/drama also stars Sheree North, Joyce Van Patton and Vincent Price.
Change of Habit
Released: 1969 Universal Pictures Available on VHS & DVD Fun Fact: Elvis' last feature film. It was based around a true story! ------------------------------------------------------------ Here Elvis plays a doctor working in an inner-city free clinic, playing host to three Catholic nurses (who are really nuns incognito). Elvis gets hung up on one of the nuns, played by Mary Tyler Moore; she seems a lot closer to The Dick Van Dyke Show than the Vatican. flower-power ambience is more interesting than the story; the film features Mod Squad-style attempts at racial politics, a sit-down protest, and a weird sequence involving "rage reduction" to cure an autistic child. Elvis has good scenes and indifferent ones, but he looks fantastic (this is just after the great "comeback"), and he dresses like no other doctor before or since.