Stay Away Joe
Stay Away Joe
Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer
Running time: 98 minutes
Release date: 3/14/68
Songs
"Stay Away, Joe," "Dominique," "Lovely Mamie," "All I Need
Was The Rain."
Credits
Produced by Douglas Laurence
Directed by Peter Tewksbury
Screenplay by Michael A. Hoey
Based on the Novel by Dan Cushman
Photographed by Fred Koenekamp, A.S.C.
Edited by George W. Brooks
Music Score by Jack Marshall
Art Direction by George W. Davis and Carl Anderson
Vocal backgrounds by The Jordanaires
Makeup by William Tuttle
Assistant Director: Dale Hutchinson
Technical Advisor: Colonel Tom Parker
Photographed in Panavision and Metrocolor
| Cast | |
| Joe Lightcloud | Elvis Presley |
| Charlie Lightcloud | Burgess Meredith |
| Glenda Callahan | Joan Blondell |
| Annie Lightcloud | Katy Jurado |
| Grandpa | Thomas Gomez |
| Hy Slager | Henry Jones |
| Bronc Hoverty | L. Q. Jones |
| Mamie Callahan | Quentin Dean |
| Mrs. Hawkins | Anne Seymour |
| Congressman Morissey | Douglas Henderson |
| Lorne Hawkins | Angus Duncan |
| Frank Hawk | Michael Lane |
| Mary Lightcloud | Susan Trustman |
| Hike Bowers | Warren Vanders |
| Bull Shortgun | Buck Kartalian |
| Connie Shortgun | Mourishka Marlene |
| StandingRattle | CaitlinWyles |
| Billie-Joe Hump | Marya Christen |
| Jackson He-Crow | Del "Sonny" West |
| Little Deer | Jennifer Peak |
| Deputy Sheriff Matson | Brett Parker |
| Orville Witt | Michael Keller |
Synopsis
Joe Lightcloud, a Navajo Indian, returns from the rodeo circuit to his Arizona
reservation with twenty heifers and a bull he promoted from his Congressman. The
idea was that if Joe and his Indian father, Charlie Lightcloud, were successful
in raising cattle, the U.S. government would help the whole reservation. Joe
barbecues the bull and sells the cows to buy some plumbing and other home
improvements his stepmother, Annie Lightcloud, wants.
Glenda Callahan is a gun-totin' tavern owner who chases Joe all over the county
in the effort to keep him from her not-too-bright daughter, Mamie Callahan. When
not chasing that girl, Joe chases the girlfriends of his fellow braves. Finally,
after a series of comic vicissitudes, when it appears that the family will go to
jail for selling government property (the cattle), Joe saves the day.
