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Trouble with Girls, The

Synopsis
Feature film. Set in 1927 Iowa where Walter Hale (Presley) manages a Chautauqua show. Mr Morality (Price) is a lecturer. In one scene he quotes from Nietzsche, Jonson, Confucius and Shakespeare. In a later scene he lectures on morality to a packed and rapt audience. Shakespearean actor Mr Drewcott (Carradine) performs to a thin and unappreciative audience - he is heard (in voice over) reciting some twenty lines from Hamlet’s soliloquy (III i) as Elvis watches, smiling.
Language
English
Country
United States
Medium
Film
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Year of release
1969
Duration
79 mins; 7,110 feet

Credits

Director
Peter Tewskbury
Producer
Lester Welch
Cinematographer
Jacques Marquette
Screenplay
Arnold Peyser; Lois Peyser
Music
Billy Strange
Costume
Bill Thomas
Cast
Elvis PresleyWalter Hale
John CarradineJohn Drewcott (Hamlet)
Vincent PriceMr Morality

Additional Details

Production type
Fiction Films
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes
Available from amazon.co.uk Region 1 only (3/2007).
General
A Chautauqua was a travelling show and local assembly that flourished in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, providing popular education combined with entertainment in the form of lectures, concerts, and plays.

Based on the novel The Chautauqua by Day Keene and Dwight Babcok from a story by Mauri Grashin.
Reviews
Monthly Film Bulletin (vol. 37, no. 432, January 1970), p. 18.

Production Company

Name

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Distributor (Sale)

Name

Retail outlets

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