The Trouble With Girls (and how to get into it)

The Trouble With Girls (and how to get into it)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 

Running time: 99 minutes
Release date: 12/10/69

Songs
"Almost," "Clean Up Your Own Backyard," "Signs Of The Zodiac," "Violet," "Swing Down Sweet Chariot."

Credits
Produced by Lester Welch
Directed by Peter Tewksbury
Screenplay by Arnold and Lois Peyser
From the Novel by Day Keene and Dwight Babcock
Based on a Story by Mouri Grashin
Photographed by Jacques Marquette, A.S.C.
Edited by George W. Brooks
Music Score by Billy Strange
Art Direction by George W. Davis and Edward Carfagno
Makeup by William Tuttle
Technical Advisor: Colonel Tom Parker
Photographed in Panavision and Metrocolor

 

Cast  
Walter Hale Elvis Presley
Charlene Marlyn Mason
Betty Nicole Jaffe
Nita Nix Sheree North
Johnny Edward Andrews
Mr. Drewcolt John Carradine
Caril Anissa Jones
Mr. Morality Vincent Prince
Maude Joyce Van Polten
Willy Pepe Brown
Harrison Wilby Dabney Coleman
Mayor Gilchrist Bill Zuchert
Mr. Perper Pitt Herbet
Clarence Anthony Teague
Constable Med Flory


Synopsis

Walter Hale is the manager of a Chautauqua, a rolling canvas college, moving from town to town spreading cultural knowledge. In one particular town Walter gets into plenty of trouble with girls and a few assorted characters during a one-week stand.
Trouble develops between the town locals and the Chautauqua personnel. There is the girl who wants to leave home to join the troupe. There is an illicit love affair that ends in murder. And a romance develops between Walter and Charlene.