Da’King Lives! :: Ladies and Gentlemen, Elvis Has Left the Building… (August, 1977)

 

(August 17, 1977)

 

 

(August, 18, 1977)

 

(August 24, 1977)

 

(August 25, 1977)

 

(August 30, 1977)

 

(December 30, 1977)

 
And that’s gonna wrap up our week long tribute to The King of Rock-n-Roll. Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did digging it all up.  And with that, I’ll leave it to the Big E to sing us out…
 

Video courtesy of ferbleyer.

 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

 

Da’King Lives! :: Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: Not Since ‘Cahill: U.S. Marshall’ was Teamed Up with ‘The Exorcist’… (May, 1973)

 

 

 

 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

 

Da’King Lives! :: Random Drive-in Mash-Up :: And That’s the Way it Was. (May, 1971)

 

 

 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

 

Da’King Lives! :: Chautauqua — And How to Get into It… (December, 1969)

 

 

 

Can I get an amen?

 

Video courtesy of MFForever.

 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of The Trouble with Girls at 3B Theater.

The Trouble with Girls (1969) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Lester Welch / AP: Wilson McCarthy / D: Peter Tewksbury / W: Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser, Day Keene (novel), Dwight V. Babcock (novel) / C: Jacques Marquette / E: George W. Brooks / M: Billy Strange / S: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Sheree North, Edward Andrews, Dabney Coleman, Nicole Jaffe, Frank Welker

Da’King Lives! :: A Pin-Up Photographer Who Doesn’t Want to Get Pinned Down! (October, 1968)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
And here’s another one that has inexplicable escaped my viewing eye. The plan is to remedy this during TCM’s marathon of Presley pictures later today as part of the Summer Under the Stars month. Until then…
 

Video courtesy of Timothy Sideburns.

 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Douglas Laurence / D: Norman Taurog / W: Michael A. Hoey, Dan Greenburg (novel) / C: Fred J. Koenekamp / E: John McSweeney / M: Billy Strange / S: Elvis Presley, Michele Carey, Don Porter, Rudy Vallee, Dick Sargent, Celeste Yarnall

Da’King Lives! :: How the West Went Wild! (May, 1968)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t get the hate for this movie. No. Wait. I do. I just don’t agree with it.
 

Video courtesy of melissapurplebaby1.

 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

Stay Away, Joe (1968) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Douglas Laurence / D: Peter Tewksbury / W: Michael A. Hoey, Burt Kennedy, Dan Cushman (novel) / C: Fred J. Koenekamp / E: George W. Brooks / M: Jack Marshall / S: Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, Henry Jones, L.Q. Jones

Da’King Lives! :: Wakin’ ‘n’ Bakin’ to that Wild Beat! (January, 1968)

 

 

 

 

 

 
In a slight change of pace that we have seen since … what, Blue Hawaii? Anyways, for this shindig, the Big E plays another heir of wealth and fortune who wants for nothing except a desire for people to like him for him — and not just for all the perks that go along with his last name. And to accomplish this, he switches identities with his new best friend. Let the merry mix-upped identity shenanigans begin, am I right? Also of note, “Do the Clam” is not featured in Clambake — for that you’ll have to track down Girl Happy — but it does contain one of my favorite movie ballads:
 

Video courtesy of SoundandArt 2010.

 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

Clambake (1967) Levy-Gardner-Laven :: Rhodes Pictures :: United Artists / P: Arthur Gardner, Arnold Laven, Jules V. Levy / AP: Ernst R. Rolf / D: Arthur H. Nadel / W: Arthur Browne Jr. / C: William Margulies / E: Ernst R. Rolf / M: Jeff Alexander / S: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Bill Bixby, Gary Merrill, James Gregory, Suzie Kaye, Angelique Pettyjohn

Da’King Lives! :: Excitement and Adventure Under the Sea! (June, 1967)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Here it is, folks. The absolute zenith, the pinnacle for all perpetuity, the most absurdest buffoonery ever befallen, the most absolute gob-smacking brain-bending smack-down to ever occur in the annals of cinema: a dueling duet between Elvis Presley and Elsa Lanchester. That’s right: it’s the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll vs. the Bride of Frankenstein in a little number I like to call…
 

Video courtesy of Brittany Reilander

 

That. Is. AWESOME!

 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of Easy Come, Easy Go at the Brewery.

Easy Come, Easy Go (1967) Hal B. Wallis Productions :: Paramount Pictures / EP: Joseph H. Hazen / P: Hal B. Wallis / AP: Paul Nathan / D: John Rich / W: Allan Weiss, Anthony Lawrence / C: William Margulies / E: Archie Marshek / M: Joseph J. Lilley / S: Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall, Pat Priest, Pat Harrington, Skip Ward, Elsa Lanchester

Da’King Lives! :: With His Foot on the Gas and No Brakes on the Fun! (November, 1966)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the rare Elvis flicks I haven’t seen yet. Stress on the “yet.”

 

Video courtesy of olionidizlove.

 
Holy shit … And Debbie Walley on the drums?!? Why have I not seen this yet!? Screw the “yet.” TO THE AMAZON!
 
This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.
 

Spinout (1966) Euterpe :: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Joe Pasternak / AP: Hank Moonjean / D: Norman Taurog / W: Theodore J. Flicker, George Kirgo / C: Daniel L. Fapp / E: Rita Roland / M: George Stoll / S: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Diane McBain, Dodie Marshall, Deborah Walley, Jack Mullaney

Da’King Lives! :: A Singing, Swinging Wrangler Turned Loose on a All-Girl Dudette Ranch! (July, 1965)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boils and Ghouls, meet my favorite Elvis movie.
 

Video courtesy of aydin keskin.

 
Once more, and once again, when our boy’s latest gig goes up in smoke due to some rowdies, luck is with him as his latest dust-up lands him a job at an all-girl dude ranch / fat farm. But just when you think the plot is locked in, Tickle Me takes a sudden and drastic 180-degree turn from sagebrush slapstick to haunted house spook-show treasure hunt, where the whole thing comes off as an unused Three Stooges script. Well, turns out there’s a reason for that.
 

This post was part of Da’King Lives, which originated back in January of 2010, to help celebrate the King of Rock-n-Roll’s 75th birthday and throw a spotlight on his fine, fractured forays into feature film.

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of Tickle Me at 3B Theater.

Tickle Me (1965) Allied Artists P: Ben Schwalb, Emanuel L. Wolf / D: Norman Taurog / W: Elwood Ullman, Edward Bernds / C: Loyal Griggs / E: Archie Marshek / M: Walter Scharf / S: Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders, Allison Hayes