Tickle Me (1965)

Director:

Norman Taurog

Writers:

Elwood Ullman (written by) and
Edward Bernds (written by)

Release Date:

30 June 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

A DUDE RANCH FOR GIRLS

Plot:

Elvis is a singing rodeo rider who drifts into an expensive dude ranch patronized by wealthy glamour girls...

Plot Keywords:

Letter | Rodeo | Singing | Dude Ranch | Ghost Town

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Elvis Presley	...	Lonnie Beale / Panhandle Kid
Julie Adams	...	Vera Radford
Jocelyn Lane	...	Pam Meritt
Jack Mullaney	...	Stanley Potter
Merry Anders	...	Estelle Penfield
Bill Williams	...	Deputy Sheriff John Sturdivant
Edward Faulkner	...	Brad Bentley
Connie Gilchrist	...	Hilda--Masseuse
Barbara Werle	...	Barbara
John Dennis	...	Adolph--Chef
Grady Sutton	...	Mr. Dabney
Allison Hayes	...	Mabel
Ines Pedroza	...	Ophelia (as Inez Pedroza)
Lilyan Chauvin	...	Ronnie
Angela Greene	...	Donna

Also Known As:

Isle of Paradise (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Allied Artists Pictures

Trivia:

This is the only movie for which Elvis Presley did not record a new soundtrack. All the songs had been recorded between 1960 and 1963, and had already been released on several albums or singles.

Quotes:

Estelle Penfield: [assessing all the food Stanley is wheeling on a cart to bring to the guests Mr. & Mrs. Dabney] Stanley! For us?
Stanley Potter: Mrs. Penfield! They're for our guests, Mr. and Mrs. Dabney. They put money in this place. Naturally we cant put them on a diet.
Mrs. Dabney: Down the hatch!
Stanley Potter: Hello, Mr. Dabney, sir!
Mr. Dabney: [as Stanley starts serving the couple their 2 cornish hens] There he is! End of the line, boy. Put them right here.
Mrs. Dabney: Don't they look wonderful?
Mr. Dabney: Oh yes, indeedy!
Stanley Potter: This one's for you, Mr. Dabney.
Mr. Dabney: Why thank you. Now I can serve the rest.
Stanley Potter: Yes sir, Mr. Dabney.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Elvis in the Movies (1990)

Soundtrack:

Night Rider

8 weeks in a 2500 seater!!

More astonishing than the script for the final 2 reels in the haunted house part of TICKLE ME is the real life fright (to us 40 years later) is the phenomenal success of this Allied Artists film. In Sydney alone TICKLE ME opened at the massive, gorgeous treasure chest State Theatre and filled all 2500 seats for an unprecedented run of 8 weeks. Built in 1929 as a luxury outlet and famed for its Astaire Rogers runs in the 30s, and the Sinatra runs of the 50s, nothing but nothing topped Elvis there in 1965. Even when his films played other major luxury palaces in Sydney before and after TICKLE ME was the winner. As flabbergasted as I am to realize that success was repeated in city after city in every country it played, NOW I realize how well this film saved Allied Artists. This was their last production until 1969. They concentrated on releasing Euro dramas like A MAN AND A WOMAN and in the 70s were responsible for CABARET and PAPILLON. If the rentals in 1965 in the US alone were $3m then you can double that from the rest of the international ticket sales: $6m from a $1.4m investment. They weren't Monogram Pictures once for nothing, were they!