Love Me Tender
by Robert D. Webb
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Actor: Debra Paget, Elvis Presley, Richard Egan, Robert Middleton, William CampbellDirector: Robert D. Webb
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Leo Tover
Editor: Hugh S. Fowler
Producer: David Weisbart
Writer: Maurice Geraghty
Writer: Robert Buckner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Love Me Tender
Movie Review: "Love Me Tender" brought to the movies one of the most popular entertainers of all time, Mr. Rock 'N' Roll himself.
Summary: 3 Stars
Why 20th Century Fox felt that starring him in a Western would be successful is merely academic... When Elvis broke into gyrations and song, audiences were electrified...
The story--filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope-- was about a bunch of Confederate soldiers who stole a Union Army payroll and then discover that, just five days ago, Lee had surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, ending the Civil War...
Hiding the money, The Reno brothers (Richard Egan, William Campbell, and James Drury) decide to use it for themselves, and return home to the family farm and their kid brother Clint...
Presley was cast as a Texas farm boy who marries his cavalry-man brother's sweetheart when news of his brother's death filters through... But the brother--played by Richard Egan isn't dead at all and incurs Presley's jealousy by resuming his friendship with his former sweetheart the beautiful Cathy Reno (Debra Paget)... The situation went from bad to worse...
In his first motion picture, Elvis proved to be a rugged fighting man, a wonderful loving man and a terrific singing man... Hear him sing: "Let Me," "We're Gonna Move," "Poor Boy," and "Love Me Tender."
Summary of Love Me Tender
Moviegoers were introduced to Elvis Presley in this film set during the dying hours of the Civil War. Elvis sings four songs, including the title song. The year is 1865, and the three Confederate Reno brothers don't know the war has ended. They manage to steal a Union Army payroll, and head for home with the money. While Vance (Richard Egan) can think only of the love of his life, Cathy (Debra Paget), it turns out that the brothers have been reported dead, and Cathy has married their youngest brother Clint (Elvis Presley). Vance accepts this until he learns that Cathy still loves him. To complicate things, the U.S. Army knows of the brothers' theft and is hunting them down.Here's the alpha point of Elvis Presley's film career, the introduction of the raw-boned Mississippi boy into Hollywood pictures. E.P. takes a supporting role, and his entrance is delayed for nearly 20 minutes: kid brother to returning Civil War soldier Richard Egan, his character marries Egan's sweetheart Debra Paget when Egan is presumed dead. It's a chance for Elvis, his face still trembling with baby fat, to emote dramatically and finish tragically, both of which he does passably well. A serviceable Western, the film shamelessly shoehorns four Presley tunes into two sequences: E.P. crooning on mama's porch, and performing at a country fair (where starchy locals don't seem disturbed at the boy's gyrating hips and happy feet). All in all, a shrewd way to put a foot in Hollywood's doorway, and, of course, one of the last Presley movies to feel like a real film and not a vehicle for the King. --Robert Horton
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