Author: Elvis Presley

Brand: 20th Century Fox

Edition: O-ring

Format: Anamorphic

Release Date: 13-08-2002

Details: Amazon.ca Elvis plays a roughneck country boy, seeingthing with hostility but gifted with literary talent. In the occasionally precious Clifford Odets script, this comes across as James Dean by way of a Thomas Wolfe novel--and not a bad shot at respectable acting by Elvis. His monologue about his dead mother, delivered to sympathetic shrink Hope Lange, is one of the most affecting things the King ever did in a movie. The songs are kept to a minimum, and Presley has some good, thrumming energy with the young Tuesday Weld (bad girl) and Millie Perkins (good girl), two uncommonly smart actresses. This is one of many Hollywood melodramas suggesting the angst brewing beneath the prosperity of the Eisenhower-Kennedy era, and it holds up decently, if not spectacularly. For Elvis fans, it's a poignant glimpse at a performer still in the young-buck stage of exciting possibilities. --Robert Horton Product Description Possibly the sexiest of all of The King's movies, this film finds Elvis playing a backwoods delinquent blessed with great literary talents with Millie Perkins as his childhood sweetheart. Co-starring Tuesday Weld. Special Features Not much beyond the basics. The color in the widescreen transfer looks brand-new, although the soundtrack seems unevenly mixed at times. --Robert Horton

UPC: 024543048183

EAN: 0024543048183

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: New