This Is Elvis (1981)

PG   |    |  Documentary, Biography, Music

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The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations. Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and death.

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16 August 2000 | michaelRokeefe
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| Tremendous documentary spotlighting a dynamic Icon.
Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt: enough said. These guys do deep research and do everything first class. This will be one of the best documentaries of an entertainer ever put on film. Elvis Presley meant so many different things to so many different people. He effected society, hair and clothing styles like no one before him. He changed the music world with the power of an Atomic Bomb. He has sold over one billion records and was the first visual founding father of the phenomenon that became rock 'n' roll. His influence will live for decades to come. This is a personal look as well as a tribute to the world's most loved entertainer.

I have the expanded 144 minute version of THIS IS ELVIS and watch it at least once a year. The soundtrack is like a history and not a greatest hits project. Even the non Elvis fan will be impressed with this entertaining look at musical history.

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Trivia

Johnny Hara named his daughter Lisa Marie after Elvis' daughter

Quotes

Pauline Nicholson: Mr. P, can I get you some sandwiches?
Elvis at 42: That'd be fine, Pauline.

Goofs

Furry Lewis is playing an Epiphone Dreadnought (most likely a BT-150 Bard) when young Elvis and his friend see him singing Blues in Shakerag. However, the guitar was not produced until the 1970s and is not correct for the time line in the film. It was Lewis's own guitar at the time the movie was released in 1981 coincidentally the year Mr. Lewis passed.

Crazy Credits

Certain sequences in this film were recreated.

Alternate Versions

Version shown on Turner Classic Movies runs 142 minutes.

Soundtracks

Rocket 88
By Jackie Brenston
Rightsong Music

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Plot Summary

Genres

Documentary | Biography | Music

Details

Release Date:

10 April 1981

Language

English

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Graceland - 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$429,146 12 April 1981

Gross USA:

$2,028,612

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$2,028,612

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