PG | 1h 37min | Documentary, Music | 11 November 1970
Concert footage and backstage documentary of singer Elvis Presley.
Director: Denis Sanders
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065687/
Watched online, good print.
26 songs in the Soundtracks, all sung by EP.
Footage of EP ('35-'77) rehearsing for a Vegas opening, followed by the concert itself. Also some fans are interviewed around midway through the concert footage. Not sure if EP had an intermission.
The poster is strange because EP wears the white jumpsuit in the show; this might have been a rehearsal shirt.
EP is trim and energetic. He seems to sing song after song. Not sure if that was editing, or really how he stacked the songs. He's in good voice.
Germ-o-phobes need not line up to get kissed by EP during song Love Me Tender, but dozens of women did.
Recall that he had a TV special in '68, so this is not his first concert in recent years. (His last film was released in '69.) But he claimed to be nervous to the doc'y camera backstage before the concert began.
The venue is a Vegas showroom, where patrons sit at tables; the room seems large. The cameras also caught various celebrities, Cary Grant and Sammy Davis Jr among them.
I found this as a next video after the '81 title discussed below.
MGM, dir. Sanders; 7
The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations. Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and death.
Directors: Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt
Watched online, ok print.
54 songs in the Soundtracks, probably all are only partially represented. Not all look to be EP songs; only 14 list EP as performer, others have no performer.
This uses mostly clips of EP himself, but also actors portraying some of the moments early in his life. His film career is glossed over, acknowledged, but de-emphasized. We get a lot from the '68 TV special and the '70 concert doc'y, plus the last concert footage from 6 weeks before his death.
It's good to have seen it, but the post-Priscilla years look very sad.
Warner & more, dir. Leo & Solt; 6
