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Directed by
Norman Taurog

Writing credits
Edmund Beloin &
Henry Garson

 

Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance

Plot Summary:  Tulsa is a specialist in the US Army stationed in Germany. He loves to sing and has dreams to run his own nightclub when he leaves the army....but dreams don't come cheap. Tulsa places a bet with his friend Dynamite that he can spend the night with a club dancer named Lili, who is rumored to be hard to get. When Dynamite gets transferred, Tulsa is brought in to take his place. He is not looking forward to it, but in order to keep his money, he must go through with it.
User Comments: Elvis' career changing movie

User Rating:  5.5/10 (530 votes)

Cast overview, first billed only:
Elvis Presley .... Tulsa McLean
Juliet Prowse .... Lili
Robert Ivers .... Cookie
James Douglas .... Rick
Letícia Román .... Tina
Sigrid Maier .... Marla
Arch Johnson .... Sgt. McGraw
Mickey Knox .... Jeeter
John Hudson .... Capt. Hobart
Kenneth Becker .... Mac (as Ken Becker)
Jeremy Slate .... Turk
Beach Dickerson .... Warren
Trent Dolan .... Mickey
Carl Crow .... Walt
Fred Essler .... Papa Mueller
  
Also Known As:
Café Europa (USA) (working title)
Christmas in Berlin (USA) (working title)
MPAA: Rated PG for mild thematic elements.
Runtime: 104 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor)  Widescreen
Sound Mix: Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification: Iceland:L / Finland:S / Sweden:Btl / UK:U / USA:Approved (original rating) / USA:PG (re-rating) (1997) / West Germany:6

Trivia: Despite the European locale, all of Presley's scenes were filmed in Hollywood.

Quotes:
Trudy: I borrow a car from my uncle Otto, we go drive tonight?
Tulsa McLean: We gotta play tonight.
Trudy: Ja wohl.
Tulsa McLean: I mean here.
Trudy: But I borrowed the car.
Tulsa McLean: Maybe later, keep your engine running.

Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations
 

User Comments:

1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
Elvis' career changing movie, 11 October 2002
Author: funkyfry from Oakland CA

Elvis was photographed in uniform while still in service (in Germany) for this amusing, light service comedy. He must make good on a bet made for another serviceman who's been sent to Alaska -- to bed dancer Prowse within a week. She's legendarily cold, but warms up to E's garrulous charms and his chivalry. She takes him out to the country, where he sings to her on a ski-lift and (unfortunately) at a children's puppet show. This is really the beginning of the new Elvis, the family Elvis, which is now despised by many fans of his grittier 50s act, but also really helped him sustain his career through the weird 60s pop music atmosphere. A lot of people that are into Elvis are down on his movie recordings, but the fact is that this is what kept his stuff going when others who came up in rock and roll (Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, Bill Haley, etc.) were faltering or beginning exclusively European and Mexican tours and films.

The film, as it is, should serve as nostalgia for some, and as a bright spot of silliness on the now much bleaker cinema screens.

 


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