"Bubba Ho-Tep"
SYNOPSIS:
Don Coscarelli directs and Bruce Campbell stars as the King of Camp in this intentionally over-the-top schlockfest. Bubba Ho-Tep is partially about Elvis Presley and partially about the title character, an Egyptian cowboy zombie, but mostly it is about camp. The movie is equal parts story and back story. We learn through narration and flashback how Elvis didn't really die, ending up instead in a rest home in East Texas with JFK (played by Ossie Davis), who was dyed black and had his brain removed, presumably for reasons of national security. Campbell and Davis realize that something strange is going on when their rest-home compatriots start dropping off suspiciously. The whole movie leads up to a final showdown to the death with the Egyptian cowboy zombie who has been sucking the souls of their fellow residents because he thought no one would notice. The movie unfolds a bit slowly; it is, after all, a geriatrics-fight-Egyptian-cowboy-zombie movie. However, one wishes this self-conscious movie's pacing took its cue from the atypically fast-moving zombie instead of from the senior-citizen Elvis and JFK. In the end, though, Campbell is flawless as the aged King; his accent, intonations, glasses, and trademark karate are at the same time sincere and over the top
"Adrenaline"
The dynanism and personal magnetism combined with his phenomenal stage presence and power describe
best what Elvis-Adrenaline stands for.
Superfan Jean-Marc Gargiulo from France opens his archives for Praytome Publishing. The Super 8
footage on this DVD has been transferred digitally for the very first time for your viewing pleasure.
Join us turning back the wheels of time when we explore rare footage in brilliant quality with never
before seen quality from the Summer Festival 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
An additional documentary includes incredible rare footage from Elvis' first live engagement in
Las Vegas 1969.
'68
Comeback Special (Deluxe Edition)
DISC 1 (run time: 2:40:49)
Chapter 1 (run time: 57:08): Elvis, NBC TV Special [Original Dec. 3, 1968 Broadcast Version] (Adapted) (15 tracks)
Trouble / Guitar Man / Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Baby, What You Want Me to Do /Heartbreak Hotel / Hound Dog / All Shook Up / Can't Help Falling in Love /Jailhouse Rock / Love Me Tender / Are You Lonesome Tonight? / Sometimes IFeel Like a
Motherless Child / Where Could I Go But To the Lord / Up Above My Head / Saved / Baby What You Want Me to Do / Blue Christmas / One Night
/ Memories / Nothingville / Guitar Man / Let Yourself Go / Guitar Man / Big
Boss Man / It Hurts Me / Guitar Man / Little Egypt / Trouble / Guitar Man
/If I Can Dream / Credits Roll
Chapter 2 (run time: 52:11): Black Leather Sit-Down Show #1 [June 27,
1968] (15 tracks)That's All Right / Heartbreak Hotel / Love Me / Baby, What You Want Me to
Do / Blue Suede Shoes / Baby, What You Want Me to Do / Lawdy Miss Clawdy /
AreYou Lonesome Tonight? / When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again / BlueChristmas / Trying to Get to You / One Night / Baby, What You Want Me to
Do
/ One Night / MemoriesChapter 3 (run time: 51:30): Black Leather Sit-Down Show #2 [June 27,
1968] (15 tracks)
Heartbreak Hotel / Baby, What You Want Me to Do / That's All Right / Are
YouLonesome Tonight? / Baby, What You Want Me to Do / Blue Suede Shoes / OneNight / Love Me / Trying To Get to You / Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Santa Claus
IsBack in Town / Blue Christmas / Tiger Man / When My Blue Moon Turns to
Gold Again / Memories
DISC 2 (run time: 1:48:32)
Chapter 1 (run time: 30:46): Black Leather
Stand-Up Show #1 [June 29, 1968] (10 tracks) /
Heartbreak Hotel / One Night / Heartbreak Hotel / Hound Dog / All Shook Up
/ Can't Help Falling in Love / Jailhouse Rock / Don't Be Cruel / Blue Suede
Shoes / Love Me Tender / Trouble / Guitar Man / Baby, What You Want Me to
Do / If I Can Dream
Chapter 2 (run time: 34:24): Black Leather Stand-Up Show #2 [June 29,
1968] (12 tracks) Heartbreak Hotel / Heartbreak Hotel / Hound Dog / All Shook Up / Can't
Help Falling in Love / Jailhouse Rock / Don't Be Cruel / Blue Suede Shoes /
Blue Suede Shoes / Love Me Tender / Trouble / Trouble / Trouble / Guitar Man /
(Tiptoe Through the Tulips / MacArthur Park) / Trouble / Guitar Man / If I
Can Dream Chapter 3 (run time: 26:07): Trouble/Guitar Man TV Show Opener - All Takes
and Raw Components [June 30, 1968] (10 tracks) (Take 912, 919-927) Chapter 4 (run time: 11:09): If I Can Dream TV Show Closer - All Takes
[June 30, 1968] (4 tracks) (Take 915-918) Chapter 5 (run time: 01:31): Huh-huh-huh Promo [June 30, 1968]
(Take 914) Chapter 6 (run time: 01:27): Elvis Closing Credits Scene Without Credits
Roll [June 30, 1968] (Take 913) Chapter 7 (run time: 03:08): If I Can Dream - Special Music Video 2004
Chapter 8: DVD Credits Roll (A Little Less Conversation)
DISC 3 (run time: 2:51:27)
Chapter 1 (run time: 50:05): Gospel Production Number - All Takes and Raw Components (21 tracks)
/ Part 1: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child / Where Could I Go But To
/
the Lord / Up Above My Head (Take 501-506) /
Part 2: Above My Head / Saved (Take 507-512) /
Part 2 Pickups: Saved (Take 513-516) /
Part 3 Pickups: Saved (Take 517-518, 602-604) /
Chapter 2 (run time: 02:01:22): Guitar Man Production Number - All Takes
and Raw Components (65 tracks) Amusement Pier - Part 1: Big Boss Man (Take 101-110)
/
Amusement Pier - Part 2: It Hurts Me (Take 111-120) /
Amusement Pier - Part 2 Pickups: It Hurts Me (Take 121-126) /
Bordello - Part 1: Let Yourself Go (Take 605-610) /
Bordello - Part 3: Let Yourself Go (Take 611-617) /
Bordello - Insert Shots: (Take 619-622) /
Bordello - Part 2: (No Elvis) (Take 623-629,631) /
Road #1: Nothingville (Take 901-903) /
Road #2: Guitar Man (Take 904-905) /
Road #3: Guitar Man (Take 906-911) / Alley: Guitar Man (Take 1001-1006) /
Night Club: Little Egypt / Trouble (Take 1007-1010) / Discotheque: Trouble
(Take / 1011-1012) Supper Club: Trouble (Take 1013-1015)
ELVIS, Aloha from Hawaii, Deluxe Edition
DVD.
DISC 1 (run time: 02:18:27) /
Chapter 1 (run time: 17:30): Elvis Arrives and Greets Fans [Jan. 9, 1973]
/
Chapter 2 (run time: 56:39): Rehearsal Concert [Jan. 12, 1973] (21 tracks)
/
Also Sprach Zarathustra / See See Rider / Burning Love / Something / You Gave Me a Mountain / Steamroller Blues / My Way / Love Me / It's Over /
Blue
Suede Shoes / I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Hound Dog / What Now My Love /
Fever / Welcome To My World / Suspicious Minds / Introductions by Elvis / I'll
Remember You / An American Trilogy / A Big Hunk O' Love / Can't Help Falling In Love
Chapter 3 (run time: 01:04:18): Elvis, Aloha from Hawaii Concert [Jan. 14,
1973] (24 tracks) Also Sprach Zarathustra / See See Rider / Burning Love / Something / YouGave Me a Mountain / Steamroller Blues / My Way / Love Me / Johnny B.
Goode / It's Over / Blue Suede Shoes / I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / I Can't
StopLoving You / Hound Dog / What Now My Love / Fever / Welcome To My World /
Suspicious Minds / Introductions by Elvis / I'll Remember You / Long TallSally / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On / An American Trilogy / A Big Hunk O'Love / Can't Help Falling in Love
DISC 2 (run time: 01:43:39) Chapter 1 (run time: 27:00): Post-Concert "Insert" Songs Session
[Jan. 14, 1973] (12 tracks)
Blue Hawaii, Ku-U-I-Po (Take 1-3), No More (Attempted Take, Take 1-2), Hawaiian Wedding Song (Take 1-4), Early Morning Rain
Double Trouble
Elvis Presley plays Guy
Lambert, a musician (so far, so good) who is touring Great Britain
(something Elvis never managed in real life). Jill Conway (Annette Day), a
wealthy heiress, is a big fan of Guy's who has developed a very serious
crush on him; her family wants to keep her away from the
romantically-inclined singer, so they send her to Belgium, not realizing
that Guy has a string of gigs set up there. En route to Brussels, a pair
of hapless jewel thieves (Norman Rossington and Chips Rafferty) hide their
loot in Guy's luggage, which makes the singer the unwitting target of
three equally inept detectives (Harry, Herbert, and Sylvester Wiere).
While wooing Jill and avoiding her treacherous uncle Gerald (John
Williams), Guy also finds himself pursued by the worldly Claire Dunham
(Yvonne Romain). Elvis sings nine songs along the way, including
"Long Legged Girls with Short Dresses On" and "Baby, if You
Give Me All Your Love." 18 months after Double Trouble was released,
Presley's career was revitalized by his 1968 comeback special, though he
would also release four more films before it aired.
"The Trouble With Girls"
Walter Hale (Elvis Presley) is the manager of a chautauqua, a traveling show consisting of performances, lectures and entertainment. Along with manager Johnny (Edward Andrews), he helps some young kids break into show business and contends with the union-organizing Charlene (Marilyn Mason). Vincent Price appears as Mr. Morality. John Carradine, Sheree North and Dabney Coleman also appear in this forgettable film which makes Clambake and Girl Happy classics by comparison. Elvis is limited to three tunes as he plays out the string of poorly scripted vehicles that ended with his next feature, the equally awful Change of Habit. By now, the inane screenplays had done permanent damage to a once-promising film career, souring the King of Rock & Roll on everything in movies except live concert performances.
"Spinout"
Elvis Presley plays rock singer and racecar driver Mike McCoy in the typical musical romp Spinout, directed by Norman Taurog. His band includes Curly Jack Mullaney, Larry Jimmy Hawkins and the female tomboy drummer Les Deborah Walley. Mike is coveted by a bevy of beauties that include the intellectual journalist Diana St. Clair Diane McBain, Susan Dodie Marshall and the spoiled rich girl Cynthia Foxhugh Shelley Fabares. Cynthia's millionaire father Howard Carl Betz wants Mike to race his newly built auto. All the girls want Mike, but he manages to marry them off to different paramours and in the end falls for his replacement drummer Susan. The 12-song album of the same title contained a musical curiosity, Bob Dylan's Tomorrow Is A Long Time. It was the only Dylan song ever recorded by Presley -- and the longest, at over five minutes in length.
"Harum Scarum"
Elvis Presley plays singer/actor Johnny Tyronne in this formulated quickie directed by Gene Nelson. While on a promotional tour of Pakistan, Johnny is drugged, kidnapped, and whisked away to a mythical Middle East country. Jay Novello plays the scheming Zacha who vows (for a price) to help Johnny in a world that is 2,000 years behind the times and sealed off from the outside world. With the help of Baba (Billy Barty), they hope to get Johnny back to the comforts of the modern world. Elvis shows off some neat karate moves, but he looks bored and resigned to the fact no one in Hollywood (or Colonel Tom Parker) will give him a serious screen role. Filmed on sets that were originally used for Kismet (1944) and Cecile B. DeMille's silent classic The Ten Commandments. As for the songs, only Mirage and Hey Little Girl are memorable. The generous Presley, perhaps feeling nostalgic, donated $50,000 to the motion picture relief fund after completing the film. On hand at the celebrity press conference were such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Bud Abbott, and silent-screen veteran Chester Conklin.
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