Elvis at the Movies

The Movies - 21 to 30

Paradise Hawaiian Style
(1966 - 91 min.) ***

Plot: Elvis is a former airline pilot who goes into the helicopter tour business with an old buddy in Hawaii, but who can't seem to keep out of trouble.

• Suzanna Leigh
• James Shigeta
• Donna Butterworth
• Marianna Hill
• Irene Tsu
• Julie Parrish
• Mary Treen
• Philip Ahn
• Director: Michael Moore
• Musical Highlights: Paradise Hawaiian Style, This Is My Heaven

Spinout
(1966 - 90 min.) ***

Plot: Elvis is a band singer and part-time race car driver being pursued by a spoiled rich girl, the author of a book about how to catch a man, and his band's girl drummer.

• Shelly Fabares
• Diane McBain
• Deborah Walley
• Cecil Kellaway
• Una Merkel
• Warren Berlinger
• Carl Betz
• Director: Norman Taurog
• Musical Highlights: Spinout, All That I Am, I'll Be Back

Easy Come, Easy Go
(1967 - 95 min.) ***

Plot: Elvis is a former Navy diver intent on salvaging a treasure he found while clearing a mine near a sunken shipwreck.

• Dodie Marshall
• Elsa Lanchester
• Pat Priest
• Frank McHugh
• Pat Harrington
• Director: John Rich
• Musical Highlights: Easy Come, Easy Go

Double Trouble
(1967 - 90 min.) ***

Plot: Elvis is a club singer in England who finds himself being chased by a love-struck 18-year old girl and by a pair of jewel thieves who hid their loot in his suitcase.

• Annette Day
• Yvonne Romain
• John Williams
• The Wiere Brothers
• Chips Rafferty
• Michael Murphy
• Director: Norman Taurog
• Musical Highlights: Double Trouble, Long Legged Girl

Clambake
(1967 - 97 min.) ***

Plot: Elvis is an oil company heir who trades places with a ski instructor in Miami to try to find a girl who likes him for himself, and not for his money.

• Shelly Fabares
• Will Hutchins
• Bill Bixby
• Gary Merrill
• James Gregory
• Director: Arthus Nadel
• Musical Highlights: Clambake, You Don't Know Me

Stay Away, Joe
(1968 - 102 min.) *

Plot: Elvis is a Native American who returns to the reservation to help his family succeed at a government program to help the tribe by giving them cattle to raise. [Note: This movie is hard to watch because it plays to every negative stereotype of Native Americans on a reservation, portraying them as a bunch of rowdy drunks.]

• Joan Blondell
• Katy Jurado
• Burgess Meredith
• Thomas Gomez
• Henry Jones
• L.Q. Jones
• Director: Peter Tewksbury
• Musical Highlights: Stay Away, Joe

Speedway
(1968 - 94 min.) ****

Plot: Elvis is a stock car racer hounded by a beautiful IRS agent intent on collecting the back taxes that he and his dishonest partner owe.

• Nancy Sinatra
• Bill Bixby
• Gale Gordon
• Director: Norman Taurog
• Musical Highlights: Speedway, Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Let Yourself Go

Live a Little, Love a Little
(1968 - 90 min.) ***

Plot: Elvis is a photographer being hounded by a beautiful but eccentric woman while trying to simultaneously hold down jobs at both an advertising agency and a girlie magazine.

• Michele Carey
• Don Porter
• Rudy Valle
• Dick Sargent
• Sterling Holloway
• Eddie Hodges
• Director: Norman Taurog
• Musical Highlights: Almost in Love, A Little Less Conversation, Edge of Reality

Elvis!
(1968 - 60 min.) *****

Plot: Elvis' 1968 television comeback special on NBC.

• Director: Steve Binder

Charro!
(1969 - 98 min.) ***

Plot: Elvis is a cowboy in the Old West who is framed by a gang of outlaws for stealing a gold-plated cannon considered to be a national shrine by the Mexican government.

• Ina Balin
• Victor French
• Lynn Kellogg
• Barbara Werle
• Paul Brinegar
• Director: Charles Marquis Warren
• Musical Highlights: Charro!