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Love Me Tender
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Love Me Tender (1956) -- Elvis plays Clint Reno, one of the Reno brothers who stayed home while he brother went to fight in the Civil War for the Confederate army...
Love Me Tender (1956) -- This is Elvis' first scene in his first film. Here he welcomes his brothers, thought dead, back from the Civil War
Love Me Tender (1956) -- Clint's brothers are back from the war but things have changed.

Overview

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5.9/10   1,207 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Maurice Geraghty (story)
Robert Buckner (writer)
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Release Date:
15 November 1956 (USA) more
Tagline:
HEAR ELVIS SING . . . "Love Me Tender" "We're Gonna Move" "Poor Boy" "Let Me" more
Plot:
Elvis plays Clint Reno, one of the Reno brothers who stayed home while he brother went to fight in the Civil War for the Confederate army... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Excellent Elvis! more (29 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Richard Egan ... Vance Reno
Debra Paget ... Cathy Reno

Elvis Presley ... Clint Reno
Robert Middleton ... Mr. Siringo
William Campbell ... Brett Reno
Neville Brand ... Mike Gavin
Mildred Dunnock ... Martha Reno
Bruce Bennett ... Maj. Kincaid
James Drury ... Ray Reno
Russ Conway ... Ed Galt
Ken Clark ... Mr. Kelso
Barry Coe ... Mr. Davis
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Dorothy Hack
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Reno Brothers (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
89 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (magnetic prints) | Mono (optical prints)

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Trivia:
Of all the movies starring Elvis Presley, this is the only one in which he didn't get top billing. He was billed third, after Richard Egan and Debra Paget. more
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Anachronisms: In the scene where Cathy Reno is at the window crying, a car can be seen in the background. more
Quotes:
Vance Reno: Listen, Brett, we didn't steal this money. We took it in battle, fair and square. It's what they call "spoils of war", like capturing a horse or anything else. We didn't know the war was over, and neither did the Federals. So it's still prize money. more
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POOR BOY more

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent Elvis!, 29 September 2005
9/10
Author: gengar843 from United States

I didn't expect this movie to rise above a campy Western with lots of Elvis thrown in, but I was WRONG! The story is SOLID: Confederate raiders rob Union payroll by overpowering and posing as the Yankee guard. Unbeknownst to them, the Civil War ended the day before and when they come to deliver the cash to a beleaguered Reb HQ, they find out the truth. They keep the cash (natch!), divided squarely, and head for their homes. What follows is alternately surprising, rousing, touching, and even heroic. The love angles and heartbreaks are true without being either overbearing or oversentimental; the chase scenes are mercifully-short; sub-text characters are given enough delineation to evoke interest and sympathy without burdening the main plot. No threads are left dangling, and suspension of disbelief is at a minimum, except (of course) Elvis' swaying hips in 1865 Dixie! The ending was purposedly refinish to accommodating insulted Elvis fans, but it doesn't matter, even if Elvis' hair is a different color than in the film.

Perhaps the least interesting part of the film (for me) was Elvis' singing, although his swiveling never fails to amaze.

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