T1CKL3.M3 (MOVIE - 1965 - 91 MINUTES) [RE-UP]

✩✩✩✩✩ EP'S EIGHTEENTH MOVIE! ✩✩✩✩✩
PLOT: A singing rodeo rider gets hired at an expensive all-female dude ranch/beauty spa and falls for a pretty fitness trainer who's under constant threat from a gang who wants her late grandfather's cache of gold that's hidden in a ghost town.
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TRIVIA:
- Written by Edward Bernds and Elwood Ullman, who had been writers for The Three Stooges, the film was originally titled "Isle of Paradise".
- For the first and only time in a Presley film, the soundtrack had no new material, utilizing album cuts dating back as early as 1960; some of these tracks were overdubbed for the film.
- "(Such an) Easy Question" peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart in July 1965.
- The only Elvis film released by Allied Artists Pictures, it saved the studio from financial collapse and bankruptcy.
- Presley won a 1966 Golden Laurel Award as Best Male Actor in a Musical Film for his role; it was the only acting award that he received during his film career.
- The film made $5 million at the box office.
✩✩✩✩✩ Released June 30, 1965 ✩✩✩✩✩