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With: Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Glenda Farrell, Jack Albertson, Pamela Austin, Cynthia Pepper, Yvonne Craig, Donald Woods, Tommy Farrell
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Written by: Written by Gerald Drayson Adams, Gene Nelson, based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams
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Directed by: Gene Nelson
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 96
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Date: 03/06/1964
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Mountain Bloat
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Somehow, Elvis Presley wound up working with the famous schlock producer Sam Katzman (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Giant Claw, etc.) on not only one but two movies! Harum Scarum (1965) is the other, while Kissin' Cousins has Elvis as Josh Morgan, a soldier in the army who is sent home to the Smoky Mountain area to convince the locals to let the army build a missile base there. He runs into two cute girl cousins, blonde Selena (Pamela Austin) and brunette Azalea (Yvonne Craig, who went on to play Batgirl on the 1960s Batman TV series), and clashes with a blonde lookalike male cousin, Jodie (also played by Elvis). Glenda Farrell and Arthur O'Connell are "Ma" and "Pappy." Meanwhile, everyone falls in love a bit too easily (Elvis has one creepy song about how he can't decide between the blonde and the brunette) and drinks moonshine while Elvis busts out with some of his most forgettable songs. Although this is pretty dumb, it's too spirited and silly to be truly terrible. (Apparently, Teri Garr is one of the hillbilly girls during a dancing scene.) Three years later, Katzman made a movie with Elvis's onetime Sun Studio labelmate Roy Orbison, The Fastest Guitar Alive.
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