The Movies

The movies years were long they started before the army with 4 films as mentioned before and continued after the return home. Mostly they were easy made light romance comedy with lots of fabulous girls, even their names contained the word girl alot to emphasize the target!
But you can't ignore that having Elvis in a movie was a sure winning ticket, not in US only but also abroad which was the only way he got to get to his worldwide fans, thanks to the Colonel!
Inspite of this he did great in them, you could laugh with him, relax and have fun, his films were like Cartoon films with the sure happily ever after end. But we must mention his serious roles in others like Flaming star, Wild in the country, Charro!, he was great, real natural and you could believe him easily even in Follow that dream you could believe his naivity and laugh about it with no regrets!!Just great.
He was a great actor but I would be lying if I said it was what the audience wanted ,NO they wanted the singer!! and they sure got what they wanted.
His biggest mistake , although it wasn't his, was Nourman Taurog the director, he made a bunch of exactly the same films, may be that what got Elvis depressed about the movie carrier, but to give him the credit he did his best even from scratch!.
Those years were hard working with 3 films per year, he was a real hard worker, he loved his work and his fans that's the truth.