Some sub par songs for the King and a plot that looks like it might have been lifted from some Abbott&Costello feature are the reasons that make Tickle Me one of Elvis Presley's lesser film outings.
Elvis is a former rodeo performer who's hired by Julie Adams to work at her dude ranch which caters to single women. Elvis being the All American male he is, jumps at the chance. And of course the women react as expected to the King.
One of the guests, Jocelyn Lane, gets clued into the fact that she is in the vicinity of her grandfather's fortune in old $20.00 gold pieces, probably at face value worth a considerable sum, but now enhanced exponentially as collector's items. Trouble is that some bad guys hear about it as well. That's where she needs Elvis.
Tickle Me has a lot of problems trying to make up its mind whether it's a comedy or not. Some slapstick situations that you might have seen in such Abbott&Costello classics as Hold That Ghost or A&C Meet Frankenstein are here, but hardly carried off with the same style.
No great Presley hits come out of Tickle Me either. This one is strictly for his fans only.
Elvis is a former rodeo performer who's hired by Julie Adams to work at her dude ranch which caters to single women. Elvis being the All American male he is, jumps at the chance. And of course the women react as expected to the King.
One of the guests, Jocelyn Lane, gets clued into the fact that she is in the vicinity of her grandfather's fortune in old $20.00 gold pieces, probably at face value worth a considerable sum, but now enhanced exponentially as collector's items. Trouble is that some bad guys hear about it as well. That's where she needs Elvis.
Tickle Me has a lot of problems trying to make up its mind whether it's a comedy or not. Some slapstick situations that you might have seen in such Abbott&Costello classics as Hold That Ghost or A&C Meet Frankenstein are here, but hardly carried off with the same style.
No great Presley hits come out of Tickle Me either. This one is strictly for his fans only.