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Roustabout

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Roustabout

Barbara Stanwyck, Beverly Adams, Billy Barty, Dabbs Greer, Elvis Presley, Jack Albertson, Joan Freeman, Joel Fluellen, Kent McCord, Leif Erickson, Pat Buttram, Raquel Welch, Ray Kellogg, Richard Kiel, Steve Brodie, Sue Ane Langdon, Teri Garr

The Elvis formula was well in place by the time of 1964's Roustabout: a passel of undistinguished songs (anyone remember "Poison Ivy League"?), pretty girls, tight pants, a colorful setting, an...( read more  read more... )d a little bit of karate to prove that Elvis really had been studying his martial arts. With that understood, Roustabout is a better-than-average workout for the King--not as peppy as Viva Las Vegas, but a good deal livelier than the sleepwalking It Happened at the World's Fair. Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle; laid up after an accident, he joins a carnival owned by the feisty Barbara Stanwyck. ("This is not a circus, it's a carnival. There's a big difference.") The cast goes from high to low: both giant-sized future James Bond villain Richard Kiel and tiny Billy Barty are carny regulars, and Raquel Welch has a small role in the opening scene. Teri Garr is one of the carnival dancers behind Elvis. The legendary costume designer Edith Head puts Elvis in a series of snappy windbreakers, but thank goodness he's also in black leather a lot. As if that weren't enough to recommend it, the movie has a sequence involving Elvis riding a cycle inside the "Wall of Death," a huge wooden cylinder with high walls. This bit actually inspired an entire Irish film in 1986, Eat the Peach, in which friends build a similar contraption after they watch Roustabout on tape. --Robert Horton

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  • Collegekid
    January 3, 2007
    Collegekid
    Elvis was an average actor at best.
  • aznalhelmi
    November 15, 2009
    aznalhelmi
    classic classic...he he he
  • spacecasefukface
    November 7, 2009
    spacecasefukface
    :" I hope you're not a mind-reader because if you are, I?m about to get my face slapped! "
    elvis the carny !!!!!
    bad boy motorcycle punk with a heart of gold ends up helping a broken down carnival the only way he can ... by singing .
    memorable songs are "Poison Ivy League"
    "rou...( read more)stabout" "Little Egypt""wheels on my heels"
  • secretsindy
    February 14, 2009
    secretsindy
    The greatset Elvis movie where Barbara plays a Milf
  • Rikki89
    November 25, 2008
    Rikki89
    Pretty good- nice happy ending, good songs and the divine Barbara Stanwyck looking great as an older woman
  • NIGHTRIDER111
    September 8, 2008
    NIGHTRIDER111
    GOOD MOVIE WORTH WATCHING
  • beatlehead5
    July 1, 2008
    beatlehead5
    One of the better Elvis programmers, with a stronger than usual soundtrack featuring "Little Egypt" and the affecting "Big Love, Big Heartache."
  • FlyingSolo2009
    April 21, 2008
    FlyingSolo2009
    Eek! An Elvis Presley movie that I must never watch!!!
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