Powerful

How sad is this?

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Hey, this is a typical Elvis movie with lots of girls in bikini's or shorts plus lots of songs. Elvis is a rodeo cowboy who also sings (of course). He gets a job at a fat farm as a horse wrangler to make ends meet. His love interest is a trainer (Vera) at the fat farm and she is looking for her grandfather's hidden fortune. Of course they fall for each other, there is a rift, and every time Elvis tries contact her she refuses. Upon his return from his rodeo circuit Elvis and Stanley (a fat farm hand) end up chasing Vera to the ghost town where her grandfather's loot is suppose to be. Spending the night in a hotel that has been refurbished by some chamber of commerce because of a storm things start to come to a head. Several attempts are made on each of them by guys looking for the gold, lead by a sheriff's deputy. Ending up in a basement, reading a map, they find the gold pieces by accident, corral the bad guys and all live happily ever after.

The TickleMe Plant is the REAL Plant that MOVES when you Tickle It. The leaves instantly fold and even the branches droop when Tickled. I found it on line at Http://www.ticklemeplant.com Ever time I see it MOVE when I Tickle It. I think of Elvis and how he moves at times like the TickleMe Plant. It a must grow plant. Does anyone know if Elvis liked plants? I'm sure he would have loved the TickleMe Plant. Anyway I love Elvis and I Love My TickleMe plant. I have to re look at the Elvis Goes To Hawaii Flick as TickleMe Plants are native there. Does anyone know if they had any in that movie? You have have seen a plant that closes its leaves and lowers its branches when Tickled. It even sleeps at night.

Although the Elvis formula films were pretty much the same when they were released, two factors made some significantly more appealing and memorable than others; the actress playing his love interest and the songs that were incorporated into the production.A third variable, more important 40 years later, is how well each film has held up. Generally the less exotic the setting and the further Elvis is from an ocean, the better they have aged. In this regard "Tickle Me" benefits from its desert ranch and western Ghost Town sets-nothing elaborate and the only water is a rain storm.And while the song selection in "Tickle Me" is nothing to get excited about, the leading lady is spectacular. Whenever Elvis movies come up in conversation you will find someone asking which one showcased Jocelyn Lane as an exercise instructor, then they get this far away look in their eyes and a dreamy expression on their face.Lane makes "Tickle Me" the most memorable of the Elvis films for male viewers. I would rank it second, edged out slightly by "Viva Las Vegas" which not only has Ann Margret but a great song selection.

More astonishing than the script for the final 2 reels in the haunted house part of TICKLE ME is the real life fright (to us 40 years later) is the phenomenal success of this Allied Artists film. In Sydney alone TICKLE ME opened at the massive, gorgeous treasure chest State Theatre and filled all 2500 seats for an unprecedented run of 8 weeks. Built in 1929 as a luxury outlet and famed for its Astaire Rogers runs in the 30s, and the Sinatra runs of the 50s, nothing but nothing topped Elvis there in 1965. Even when his films played other major luxury palaces in Sydney before and after TICKLE ME was the winner. As flabbergasted as I am to realize that success was repeated in city after city in every country it played, NOW I realize how well this film saved Allied Artists. This was their last production until 1969. They concentrated on releasing Euro dramas like A MAN AND A WOMAN and in the 70s were responsible for CABARET and PAPILLON. If the rentals in 1965 in the US alone were $3m then you can double that from the rest of the international ticket sales: $6m from a $1.4m investment. They weren't Monogram Pictures once for nothing, were they!