Best boxing biography movie of elvis
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Elvis as a recently discharged G.I. is looking for work, but ends up as a fighter after taking a job as a sparring partner for an up and coming fighter. The King is not in the best of shape, the songs are disposable (with the exception of I Got Lucky) and the finale has a gigantic loose end that annoys greatly. When Maggie realizes that Charlie looks good on stage and can sing a tune or two, she makes him a star attraction.
Beyond that, the story is dramatic and compelling, not to mention there's a refreshing sense of warmth between the main characters.
The movie runs 1 hour, 35 minutes, and was shot in Idyllwild, California, with studio work done in Culver City.
GRADE: B
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Walter Gulick (Elvis Presley) is a soldier fresh out of the military.
Still, it's poignant to see Presley commit to what would be his final film performance. As Elvis said, after his 1969 return to the stage, it was like they made the same movie a bunch of times and just changed the backdrops. People who are expecting to see "Rocky" might be disappointed but, like Mr Balboa, Elvis' Galahad shows convincingly that he can take a brutal series of blows and keep on keeping on.
Vance takes the news in stride, but the rest of the family, Cathy included, cannot reconcile with his return. Girl Happy
Elvis and Shelley Fabares fall in love the old fashioned way, though needless subterfuge, in the 1965 Spring Break picture "Girl Happy." Chicago singer Rusty (Presley) and his band are hired by their tough-guy nightclub boss (Harold Stone) to look after his college-aged daughter Valerie (Faberes) while she's on vacation in Ft.
Lauderdale. Regardless, the locations are exemplary. Presley is as charming as ever here, and his chemistry with Fabares is solid, though it does feel strange once you notice that he never takes off his shirt in the film, even at the beach. But Willy has a gambling problem, and Otto and his goons constantly remind him he needs to pay up. JAILHOUSE ROCK (1957)
Director: Richard Thorpe. Writer: Guy Trosper. Starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler.
The oater plot was nothing new — Presley is a mixed-raced cowboy trying to keep the peace between white settlers and native tribes in West Texas after the Civil War — but it was something new for The King, a vision (along with "Wild in the Country") of what adult stardom could look like, free of corny plots and musical numbers.
Regardless, the on-screen interaction between them is fine. WILD IN THE COUNTRY (1961)
Director: Philip Dunne. Writer: Clifford Odets. Starring Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins.
“Wild in the Country” is one of the most un-Elvis-like films in the Presley canon. With a screenplay by legendary playwright Clifford Odets, the film focused on Glenn Tyler (Presley) who is troubled at times and forced by a court to seek help from psychologist Irene Sperry (Hope Lange), with whom he is suspected of having an affair. Glenn later aspires to a literary career and heads off to college to pursue his dreams, not a very Elvis-y thing to do. With all the talk of illicit affairs and an out-of-wedlock baby, “Wild in the Country” can be clearly called his most adult film.
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Sure, I know they fake the boxing, but even fake punches can connect every once in a while. But that only fueled the mania to see Elvis among his fans, and that jump started his new career on the big screen.
Presley's film output can be divided into two genres. Second: This Elvis guy really wasn't that bad an acor.
Watching this won't throw you off your chair, but there are bigger wastes of time out there.
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One of Elvis' Best
A very different Elvis movie. As helicopter pilot Rick Richards, Presley works to keep his charter business afloat while singing in elaborate musical numbers surrounded by photogenic Hawaiian dancers and rescuing his best friend and business partner Danny (James Shigeta, "Die Hard").
Frankie and Annette made a few beach party flicks in the 1960s, and The Beatles had their own post-modern takes on the Elvis movie, but as he often did, The King stood alone.
Presley's films, to be fair, were rarely critical favorites, and at the rate in which they were pumped out — 31 films in just over a dozen years -– some corners had to be cut, particularly in the screenplay department.