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Elvis Triple Feature: Harum Scarum/Speedway/The Trouble With Girls

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This is a collection of classic Elvis. Two of the movies are recorded, front and rear on the same DVD. Some one blew it as to the technology. The movie recorded on the rear will hardly play, with digital fade all over the place. Gave up trying to enjoy 1 of 3 movies

double sided disc?

I don't know... I don't like the idea of those discs.
They are bound to have more scratches, fingerprints and so on when you manipulate them.
When you put the disc back in the case, you will leave marks on the disc, unless you wear cotton gloves or something.

Apart from that, it's a GREAT deal, excellent price for 3 movies, if you don't already have them.
I'd give it 5 stars if the set was for 3 discs, and not 2 (one being double-sided)

Enjoy!
:)

Love the movies, my favorite is Harum Scarum. It is a great price for 3 movies. Although I have had no issues with them I don't care for the double sided disc, I have had problems with that type of disc in the past. I wish you could buy all 3 titles separatley,or at least on separate disc.

my fav. elvis movie is speedway for a number of reasons. go-go-boots nancy sinatra makes a fun love interest for elvis. the songs are better than usual in his movies. the little kids are sweet and cute, not obnoxious the way most child actors are nowdays. the racing scenes are fun and it's great to see classic drivers given billing. bill bixby is believable as elvis's manager, and gale gordon is perfectly cast as mr. irs man. super fun movie. there are trailers for this one and several others on the dvd, too. great value for the money.

I like all the Elvis films with Ann Margaret the other two are just Elvis and the gruopees movies plot. better watch Love Me Tender. The original title--The Reno Brothers--was changed to capitalize on the advanced sales of the song "Love Me Tender". Presley was not too upset about the addition of the title song, he quite liked it, but when several more songs were added he blasted them as "garbage" and "silly songs". The film was generally panned by the critics, although a number of them viewed it in a positive light. The Los Angeles Times wrote: "Elvis can act. S'help me the boy's real good, even when he isn't singing". Despite mostly negative reviews, the film did well at the box office,[12] generating $540,000 in its first week alone. Although Presley was angered by the addition of songs to his film, the fans loved them. The success of both the single and EP set the tone for every Presley picture that was to follow, and the commercial success led to the release of three more Presley film vehicles over the next twenty months; Loving You, Jailhouse Rock, and King Creole. Jailhouse Rock and King Creole (1958), called for relatively dramatic performances. The erotic, if not homo-erotic dance sequence to the former's title song is often cited as his greatest moment on screen, It was choreographed by Alex Romero after watching Presley himself. Howard Thompson of the New York Times began his review of the latter movie, "As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act. His first film after his return from the Army, G.I. Blues (1960), directed by Norman Taurog, set the tone for Presley's Hollywood output in the 1960s. Presley fans loved the mix of songs, romance and humor, and, perhaps surprisingly considering his experiences during the 1950s, critics were also warming to the new formulaic approach and clean-cut characters. Presley was not so thrilled, and thought many of the songs in G.I. Blues made no sense to the plot. He was concerned about the number of songs in it; unlike his earlier films, which consisted of fewer songs usually resulting in only an EP release, G.I. Blues had enough to release a full LP in its own right. As described by critic Al Clark, it was the "first in a series of nine bland Presley vehicles directed by Taurog, and the film which engendered a career formula of tepid, routine comedy-musicals. Presley at first insisted on pursuing more serious roles, but when two films in a more dramatic vein -- Flaming Star (1960) and Wild in the Country (1961) -- were less commercially successful, he reverted to the formula. So formulaic that his output has been called "Elvis movies," and a genre unto themselves. The majority of Presley's movies aimed for little more than reliable returns on modest investments and the promotion of their accompanying soundtrack albums. To maintain box office success, he would later even shift "into beefcake formula comedy mode for a few years. For most of the 1960s, during which he made 27 movies, there were few exceptions such as the non-musical western, Charro!

Loved them at the movies as a kid and love them now too! Elvis is great sound quality is wonderful!