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.