"Tickle Me"

May 28, 1965

Allied Artists

Cast; Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane

All in all everything shows that "Tickle Me" is a movie as cheap as possible. Still it's an amusing one.

Elvis plays Lonnie  Beale, the "Dude" ranch horse handler 

Songs; Long Lonely Highway, It Feels So Right, Easy Question, Dirty, Dirty, Feeling, I'm Yours, Night Rider, I Feel That I've Known You Forever, Slowly But Surely

Trailer

Synopsis; Lonnie Beale (Elvis) is hired by Vera Radford (Julie Adams), who owns a high-priced ranch/health spa. He’s a populair figute to all but Pam Merritt (Jocelyn Lane), the spa’s physical instructor, who sees him as just another gigolo until the night when she discovers someone in her quarters and Lonnie tries to help  her. 

By the time he gets there, the intruder is gone, and when the sheriff arrives and takes her aside, he warns that she has been talking to freely about her grandfather’s letter. Shortly afterwards, to men in masks attempt to kidnap Pam. This attempt fales. Out in the desert, these two men wait for their boss, who turns out to be the deputy. Lonnie helps her to find her grandfather’s gold in the ghost toen of Silverado, where the money is hidden. A storm rises out of the mountains and the bandits try several ways to get the gold, but they’re foiled by Lonnie and Pam. He showed Pam that he was there for here and finally they get married at the ranch and head off for a well deserved honeymoon.

Allied Artists was experiencing financial fifficulty whan they signed Elvis for Tickle Me. They gave him a $750,000 salary plus 50 percent of the film’s profits. Considering Elvis’ box-office track record, the studio expected the film to do well, and it did. Tickle Me became the third highest grossing film in the Studio’s history, and Elvis is credited with rescuing Allied Artists frm bankruptcy at the time.