Kissin' Cousins (1964)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.8/10   

Director:

Gene Nelson

Writers:

Gerald Drayson Adams (story)
Gerald Drayson Adams (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

6 marzo 1964 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

Plot:

An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin. |

Plot Keywords:

Foot Fetish | Elvis | Elvis Presley | Hillbilly | Actor Playing Multiple Roles

Awards:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Backwoods beauties (and Batgirl!) put the bite on Elvis...

Cast

Elvis Presley	...	Josh Morgan / Jodie Tatum
Arthur O'Connell	...	Pappy Tatum
Glenda Farrell	...	Ma Tatum
Jack Albertson	...	Capt. Robert Jason Salbo
Pamela Austin	...	Selena Tatum (as Pam Austin)
Cynthia Pepper	...	Cpl. Midge Riley
Yvonne Craig	...	Azalea Tatum
Donald Woods	...	Gen. Alvin Donford
Tommy Farrell	...	MSgt. William George Bailey
Beverly Powers	...	Trudy
Hortense Petra	...	Dixie Cate
Bobby Stone	...	General's aide (as Robert Stone)

Duración:

96 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Australia:G | Sweden:Btl | Finland:S

Filming Locations:

Big Bear Lake, California, USA

Company:

Four-Leaf Productions

Trivialidades:

Elvis Presley supposedly loathed the "strawberry blond" wig he had to wear as the hillbilly cousin in this film, in part because it made him look as he had before deciding to dye his hair black in the mid-fifties.

Quotes:

Capt. Robert Jason Salbo: Madam, words fail me. Your culinary talents supersede the most exotic cuisine.
Ma Tatum: You don't like it.
Capt. Robert Jason Salbo: Oh, no, no, no, on the contrary...
Josh Morgan: He means he'd like some more, Ma.
Ma Tatum: Oh, that's good.
Pappy Tatum: Good! Good! I like to see a young fella who's a good eater.
Capt. Robert Jason Salbo: I must say, in all my travels, I never tasted anything quite like it.
Ma Tatum: You ain't never?
Capt. Robert Jason Salbo: Unh-uhnmm!
[meaning "No"]
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "That '70s Show: Eric's Hot Cousin (#4.14)" (2002)

Soundtrack:

Kissin' Cousins

Backwoods beauties (and Batgirl!) put the bite on Elvis...

Army Lieutenant Elvis Presley is assigned to infiltrate the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee to sweet-talk a hillbilly family into letting the government lease their mountain for a missile base; turns out Presley is distant kin-folk to the wrasslin' hick clan and bears a striking resemblance to the resident blonde hellraiser. Grubby-looking semi-musical manages to give us two Presleys for the price of one, but the script, direction, and production values are strictly third-rate. The bevy of squealing gals who chase Elvis through the woods have a much better time than most viewers will, seeing as how nobody cared enough to write a single decent song for the soundtrack--and E.P. himself walks through the picture looking non-plussed. Lovely Yvonne Craig, TV's Batgirl, is very frisky (until she goes all coy and demure) and has a fun scene proposing marriage to Elvis, but for a comedy this is awfully glum stuff. *1/2 from ****