Tickle Me (1965)
Elvis is a singing rodeo rider who drifts into an expensive dude ranch patronized by wealthy glamour girls. The owner, Vera Radford, hires Elvis as a stable man. Pretty physical fitness trainer Pam Merritt has a letter from her late grandfather directing her to a cache of gold in the ghost town of Silverado. The sheriff and his gang learn of the letter and plot to take it away from her.
A DUDE RANCH FOR GIRLS
Stanley Potter: Here comes the girdle brigade.
Fairplex - 1101 West McKinley Avenue, Pomona, California, USA
(rodeo scenes with grandstand)
Mojave Desert, California, USA
(desert road scenes were in the vicinity of Fort Tejon Road)
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
(Studio)
This is the only movie for which Elvis Presley did not record a new soundtrack. All the songs had been recorded between 1960-63, and had already been released on several albums or singles.
The man who fights with Lonnie (Elvis Presley) is Presley's bodyguard and friend Red West.
While filming, Elvis Presley gave his Sony film camera to director Norman Taurog. At the time those cameras were rare in the US. Taurog liked the idea because he could shoot the scene himself and review it before it went for editing.
Elvis Presley made this film in a deal with floundering Allied Artists, in which he took a pay cut (still making $750,000) and did not record any new material in exchange for 50% of the film's profits. The film was a big earner, costing $1.5 million and grossing about $5 million worldwide. It was credited with saving Allied Artists from bankruptcy.
The authors of the film, Elwood Ullman and Edward Bernds, are most famous for writing many of the Three Stooges shorts and movies from the 1930s to 1960s.
Continuity
When Elvis gets off the Greyhound bus he picks up his luggage, putting his guitar strap on his shoulder, with the head of the guitar behind his arm. He then enters the Corral bar. When he arrives inside, the guitar strap has been reversed, so that the head of the guitar is now in front of his shoulder.