Love Me Tender
20th Century-Fox, 1956Elvis as a southerner in trouble with the North: he is the youngest of four brothers pursued by Union troops after the Civil War.
Songs: Love Me Tender; Let Me Be; Poor Boy; We're Gonna Move
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Loving You
Paramount, 1957Elvis plays a country boy who sings his way to fame and fortune.
Songs: Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do; Hot Dog; Lonesome Cowboy; Loving You; Mean Woman Blues; Party; Teddy Bear
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Jailhouse Rock
MGM, 1957As an ex-con with a chip on his shoulders, Elvis gains fame and fortune by singing but loses his soul because he is greedy. A career-threatening accident (he gets socked in the vocal cords) brings him back to his senses.
Songs: Baby I Don't Care; Don't Leave Me Now; I Wanna Be Free; Jailhouse Rock; Treat Me Nice; Young And Beautiful; One More Day (sung by Mickey Shaughnessy)
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King Creole
Paramount, 1958Sauntering the mean streets of New Orleans, Elvis battles hoods, meets a hooker with a heart of gold, and winds up with a woman of virtue. Based on Harold Robbins' 'A Stone For Danny Fisher', originally acquired as a vehicle for James Dean.
Songs: As Long As I Have You; Crawlfish; Dixieland Rock; Don't Ask Me Why; Hard-Headed Woman; King Creole; Lover Doll; New Orleans; Steadfast, Loyal and True; Trouble; Young Dreams
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G.I. Blues
Paramount, 1960A salute to Elvis' Army years in Germany. He plays a khaki-clad lothario who bets his buddies he can bed the showgirl with the five-foot-long legs. He wins her by earnestly diapering a baby.
Songs: Big Boots; Blue Suede Shoes; Didja Ever; Doin' The Best I Can; Frankfurt Special; G.I. Blues; Pocketful Of Rainbows; Shoppin' Around; Tonight Is So Right For Love; What's She Really Like; Wooden Heart
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Flaming Star
20th Century-Fox, 1960In a role written for Marlon Brando, Elvis plays a half-breed in the middle of a small-town Texas race war. His most earnest acting job, and one of his few commercial flops.
Songs: A Cane And A High Starched Collar; Flaming Star
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Wild In The Country
20th Century-Fox, 1961Cliffords Odets' literate screenplay casts Elvis as a punk on probation who learns about civilized society from psychiatric social worker Hope Lange. His short story is published and he heads off to college.
Songs: In My Way; I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell, Lonely Man, Wild In The Country
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Blue Hawaii
Paramount, 1961Heir to a pineapple fortune, Elvis wants to prove he can make it on his own. He chooses a career as a tourist guide. After much parent-son strife, he reconciles with his family by agreeing to do all the travel arrangements for a convention of his father's pineapple employees.
Songs: Almost Always True; Aloha Oe; Beach Boy Blues; Blue Hawaii; Can't Help Falling In Love; Hawaiian Sunset; Hawaiian Wedding Song; Island Of Love; Ito Eats; Ku-u-i-Po; Moonlight Swim; No More; Rock A-Hula Baby; Slicin' Sand
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Follow That Dream
United Artist, 1962When their jalopy runs out of gas, Elvis and his wacky white-trash relatives decide to homestead in Florida. But a nearby craps game keeps them awake at night. Using judo, Elvis routs the gamblers, then does battle against the state welfare system that wants to take his adopted kin away. Elvis biggest box-office success.
Songs: Follow That Dream; I'm Not The Marrying Kind; Sound Advice; What A Wonderful Life; Angel
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Kid Galahad
United Artist, 1962As a guy with a great set of pipes, an iron jaw, and anvil hands, Elvis breezes unscathed through the violent and corrupt boxing underworld. He licks the bad guys, wins the big fight, and marries the girl.
Songs: A Whistling Tune; Home Is Where The Heart Is; I Got Lucky; King Of The Whole Wide World; Riding The Rainbow; This Is Living
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
Paramount, 1962Elvis saves his charter fishing boat from a rich man who cares nothing about the sea. Saga Oriental advice is dispensed by Benson Fong.
Songs: A Boy Like Me, A Girls Like You; Earth Boy; Girls! Girls! Girls!; I Don't Want to Be Tied; Return To Sender; Song Of The Shrimp; Thanks To the Rolling Sea; The Walls Have Ears; We'll Be Together; We're Coming In Loaded; Where Do You Come From?
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It Happened At The World's Fair
MGM, 1963A Pilot with no money and no plane, Elvis hangs out at the seattle World's Fair, where he falls in love with the nurse at the first-aid station and feeds endless amounts of junk food to an orphaned Chinese tyke.
Songs: A World Of Our Own; Beyond The Bend; Cotton Candy Land; Happy Ending; How Would You Like To Be; I'm Falling In Love Tonight; One Broken Heart For Sale; Relax; Take Me To The Fair; They Remind Me Too Much Of You
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Fun In Acapulco
Paramount, 1963Elvis gets a job as a lifeguard at an Acapulco hotel and finds himself caught between an amorous lady bullfighter and the hotel's social director. He triumphs over acrophobia by jumping off the cliffs of La Quebrada into the raging sea.
Songs: Bossa Nova Baby; The Bullfighter Was A Lady; El Toro; Fun In Acapulco; Guadalajara; I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here; Marguerita; Mexico; There's No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car; Vino, Dinero Y Amor
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Kissin' Cousins
MGM, 1964Elvis in two roles: a blond hillbilly and a blackhaired Army officer. Dark Elvis must convince light Elvis that it's okay to built a nuclear missile silo near the family's moonshine still.
Songs: Barefoot Ballad; Catchin' On Fast; Kissin' Cousins; Once Is Enough; One Boy, Two Little Girls; Smokey Mountain Boy; Tender Feeling; There's Gold In The Mountains
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Viva Las Vegas
MGM, 1964Race car driver Elvis falls in love with hotel swimmming instructor Ann Magret. When his money gets sucked down the drain of the swimming pool, he takes a job as a waiter and competes with Ann-Margret in the employees' talent contest. He enters the race, wins, and marries Ann-Margret.
Songs: C'mon Everybody; If You Think I Don't Need You; I Need Somebody To Lean On; The Lady Loves Me; Santa Lucia; Today, Tomorrow And Forever; Viva Las Vegas; What'd I Say; Yellow Rose Of Texas
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Roustabout
Paramount, 1964Elvis goes from singing shill in a fortune-teller's teahouse to carnival roustabout, where his musical talents keep the midway alive.
Songs: Big Love, Big Heartache; Carny Town; Hard Knocks; It's A Wonderful World; It's Carnival Time; Little Egypt; One Track Heart; Poison Ivy League; Roustabout; There's A Brand New Day On The Horizon; Wheels On My Heels
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Girl Happy
MGM, 1965Elvis is hired as a chaperone for the nubile daughter of Big Frank, a Chicago nightclub owner with underworld connections. The girls gets drunk in Fort Lauderdale, does a striptease in public, and winds up in jail. Big Frank is angry, but forgives Elvis when he realizes that Elvis means well.
Songs: Cross My Heart And Hope To Die; Do Not Disturb; Do The Clam; Fort Lauderdale Chamber Of Commerce; Girl Happy; I've Gotta Find My Baby; The Meanest Girl In Town; Puppet On A String; Spring fever; Startin' Tonight; Wolf Call
Tickle Me
Allied Artists, 1965Elvis as an out-of-work rodeo cowboy at an all-girl beauty spa. He escapes a dozen man-hungry women in jogging suits, falls for te physical instructor, and stumbles upon a jillion dollars' worth of hidden gold.
Songs: Dirty, Dirty Feeling; Easy Question; I Feel That I've Known You Forever; I'm Yours; Night Rider; Put The Blame On Me; Slowly But Surely
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Harum Scarum
MGM, 1965Decked out in caftan and turban, Elvis is a moviestar publicizing his new film, who gets kidnapped by evildoers, meets beautiful Princess Shalimar, and karate-chops his way out of the Arab World.
Songs: Go East Young Man; Golden Coins; Harem Holiday; Hey Little Girl; Kismet; Mirage; My Desert Serenade; Shake That Tambourine; So Close Yet So Far
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Frankie And Johnny
United Artists, 1966When Frankie (Donna Douglas) shoots Johnny (Elvis) because she is jealous of Nellie Bly (Nancy Kovack), he is saved by his lucky cricket pendant.
Songs: Beginner's Luck; Chesay; Come Along; Down By The Riverside; When The Saints Go Marching In; Everybody Come Aboard; Frankie And Johnny; Hard Luck; Look Out, Broadway; Petunia, The Gardener's Daughter; Please Don't Stop Loving Me; Shout It Out; What Every Woman Lives For
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Paramount, 1966Fired as an airlines pilot for kissing a stewardess, returns to his native Hawaii and starts a helicopter taxi service. While ferrying a chopper full of unruly show dogs, he accidently buzzes an auto on the highway, wich turns out to be driven by an inspector from the Federal Aviation Agency. He saves his skin by performing a heroic rescue.
Songs: Datin'; Dog's Life; Drums Of The Islands; House Of Sand; Paradise Hawaiian Style; Queenie Wahine's Papaya; Scratch My Back; Stop Where You Are; This Is My Heaven
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Spinout
MGM, 1966Elvis is pursued by a millionaire's daughter, a drummer, and a feminist author researching a book called The Perfect Male.
Songs: Adam And Evil; All That I Am; Am I Ready?; Beach Shack; I'll Be Back; Never Say Yes; Smorgasbord; Stop, Look And Listen, Spinout
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Paramount, 1967Elvis the frogman demolition expert in search of buried treasure. On Land, he encouters a kooky yoga instructor, beatnik body painters, and the most surreal go-go club.
Songs: Easy Come, Easy Go; I'll Take Love; The Love Machine; Sing, You Children; Yoga Is As Yoga Does; You Gotta Stop
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Double Trouble
MGM, 1967Mod adventures in England: Elvis is pursued across the continent by sexy girls in miniskirts, the bumbling Wiere Brothers, smugglers, and angry Uncle Gerald.
Songs: Baby If You'll Give Me All Of Your Love; City By Night; Could I Fall In Love; Double Trouble; I Love Only One Girl; Long-Legged Girl; Old MacDonald; There Is So Much World To See
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Clambake
United Artists, 1967Elvis (a rich guy) trades identities with a poor guy so that people will like him for himself instead of his money. A gold-digger girl who wants to fall in love with a rich guy falls for Elvis, much to her dismay, but then gets happy when he reveals he owns half the planet.
Songs: Clambake; Confidence; The Girl I Never Loved; Hey, Hey, Hey; A House That Has Everything; Who Needs Money; You Don't Know Me
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Speedway
MGM, 1968Race car driver Elvis is investigated by white-booted IRS agent Nancy Sinatra. He sings about how good it is to pay taxes to Uncle Sam, wins enough money in the big race to get the government off his back, and winds up in a wild disco fantasy with Nancy.
Songs: He's Your Uncle, Not Your Dad; Let Yourself Go; Speedway; There Ain't Nothing Like A Song; Who Are You; Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby
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Stay Away, Joe
MGM, 1968Elvis is an Indian: brown-skinned, hot-blooded and hard-drinking. Elvis sings to Dominic the Bull, a family pet who gets eaten by drunken Indians who mistake him for a cow.
Songs: All I Needed Was The Rain; Dominic; Stay Away, Joe; Stay Away
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Live A Little,
Love A Little
MGM, 1968Fashion photographer Elvis (a responsable adult for a change) is pursued by a man-hungry woman and her Great Dane. The pressure is so heavy that he has a surrealistic dream in wich his dance partner wears a dog suit.
Songs: A Little Less Conversation; Almost In Love; Edge Of Reality; Wonderful World
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Charro!
National General, 1969An hommage to Clint Eastwood westerns, with stubble-faced Elvis squinted and wearing a dirty serape, and singing nothing more than the title song. A major departure from the happy-go-lucky mold.
Song: Charro
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The Trouble With Girls
(And How To Get Into It)
MGM, 1969Murder, kidnapping, union problems, and lynchmob mentality are just of the rollicking distractions Elvis faces as the leader of a traveling entertainers in the Roaring Twenties.
Songs: Almost; Clean Up Your Own Backyard; Signs Of the Zodiac; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; The Whiffenpoof Song, Violet
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Change Of Habit
NBC-Universal, 1969Elvis the ghetto doctor teams up with three plainclothes nuns to deal with slum housing, race relations, autism and street crime. Because he doesn't know she is a nun, Elvis falls for Sister Michelle (Mary Tyler Moore) but can't figure out why she avoids him. The enigmatic ending doesn't reveal whether they consummate their relationship.
Songs: Change Of Habit; Rubberneckin'; Let Us Pray
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Thats the Way it is
MGM, 1970This is the best "behind the scenes" documentary of Elvis ever filmed.
It follows Elvis as he rehearses in California and Nevada studios in preparation for his Las Vegas debut in 1970.
And then you wait backstage with Elvis while he sweats pre-concert jitters and then watch a great show culled from six performances.
It is filmed in beautiful 35 mm Panavision that makes it look like it was shot yesterday.
You see Elvis at work and at play in an intimate setting where Elvis is relaxed and just being himself and therefore you feel his personality as it really was.
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This Is Elvis
MGM, 1981A posthumous semidocumentary biography that intercuts real footage with reenacted scenes in wich actors play Elvis.