K1SS1N.C0US1NS (MOVIE - 1964 - 96 MINUTES) [RE-UP]

✩✩✩✩✩ EP'S FOURTEENTH MOVIE! ✩✩✩✩✩
PLOT: Lieutenant Josh Morgan is sent by the military to mediate a land deal with his distant cousins in the mountains. He faces resistance from the men in the house, but the women are crazy about him.
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TRIVIA:
- While set in the Great Smoky Mountains, the film was shot in the Los Angeles area, both on set at MGM Studios and outdoors in the San Bernardino Mountains east of LA;
- Some filming took place in Big Bear Lake;
- Screenwriters Gene Nelson and Gerald Drayson Adams were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award in the category of Best Written American Musical (won by Mary Poppins);
- The song "Smokey Mountain Boy" was deleted from the 1997 VHS release;
- The song "Kissin' Cousins", which was performed as the movie's finale, reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified Gold by the RIAA;
- Elvis was profoundly displeased with the blonde wig he had to wear to play his cousin, so one day all the crew and Colonel Parker wore blonde wigs on the set.
✩✩✩✩✩ Released March 6, 1964 ✩✩✩✩✩