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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Pretty Good

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Blistering performances.

SYNOPSIS: The Air Force wants to build an ICBM base on top of a mountain in Tennessee, but the land is owned by a hillbilly moonshiner who fires on all Air Force negotiators. So an Air Forceman who was bred and raised in the area is sent to placate the locals.COMMENT: The first of the Elvis quickies (thank you producer Sam Katzman and Elvis Presley's manager, Tom Parker) but not as bare of interest as some of the later ones. Elvis has two roles but only occasionally are special effects employed. Mostly the other Elvis is a very blatant double. In fact the double is even used in one scene where he is not required for duplication at all! A typical quickie stratagem. But any film that gives a solo song to Glenda Farrell can't be all bad. And there are the usual generous quota of girls, girls, girls (even if their costumes are neither as "skimpy" or attractive as the on- screen characters suppose). In fact the songs themselves (including a blatant rip-off of "Across the Wide Missouri") are a fairly tuneful lot and Elvis is in good vocal form with his usual excellent backing. Just as well it's so packed with songs, as the script is mindless farce, (over-acted and pedestrianly directed). Thank you, L'il Abner.

Elvis Presley's first truly bad movie. Produced by low-rent Sam Katzman, "Kissing' Cousins" (1964) saddles the King with a sitcom- level script, forgettable songs and cheap sets. Presley and the supporting players try their best, but it's a hopeless situation. This movie is good value for money if you like Elvis, 'cos you get two of him at the same time. How you ask? Ah well, that's technology for you !! But it's 1964 technology, so don't expect to be totally blown over with it.The first twenty minutes of the movie are very promising. And there are some quite funny moments as the US army is bowled over by a wild gang of man-hungry bikini- clad mountain girls when the army tries to invade their mountain - and thats's the story line!!Anyway, an all round fun movie.. . it is worth a viewing - for a few laughs and a couple of good songs, you understand...

Elvis had to work overtime in this flick because he plays two parts. Did Marlon Brando ever play two parts? Did Montgomery Clift? Did James Dean? Nope, only Elvis could handle such a challenge. Actually I'm not even sure if Brando, Clift and Dean did double duty, but even if they did, there is no way they could be as good as Elvis. In the 1960s seeing double was hot in the television and motion picture business. Hayley Mills, Patty Duke and Bob Denver all took on duo roles in their respective projects. It only made sense to have Elvis do it too. He seems to have fun playing Jodie Tatum since he is liberated from having to play "the Elvis movie character" that he pretty much was forced to do in all his other movies. He's allowed to be a bit of a rascal. Elvis also gets to fight himself which is always fun to see an actor do. The biggest weakness of this film is that Yvonne Craig did not get to play two parts. I wouldn't have minded seeing two of her.

Kissin' Cousins (1964) * 1/2 (out of 4) An Army man (Elvis) tries to talk his redneck cousin (Elvis) into letting the government put up a missile site on his property. As you can tell, the big story here is that Elvis plays a duel role and in fact he's the best thing about the movie but more on that later. The rest of the film is pretty damn lame from start to finish with horrible songs and horrible performance. With a title like this I was expecting a lot of Southern stereotypes but we don't even get any of that, which just makes the film all the more bland. The supporting players are all incredibly weak but I guess they knew how stupid the story was. The actual story never really makes any sense, which just makes the film a drag to go through. Back to Elvis, I thought he gave one of his better performances here in both roles. He spent time in the Army so he looked and acted very realistic in the scenes early on when "reporting" to higher officials. He was also a redneck so I thought he pulled the Southern thing off as well but what the hell was up with that blonde wig? The 'trick shots' used to hide The King's double are the only laughs in the film.