Not so wild in flaming star country: Elvisarama #6/#7, Flaming Star & Go wild in the country

So my first post for a week or two brings you a twofer on two strange films in the Elvis cannon. Yup, he goes on to make a few more westerns but 'Go wild in the country' is a strange pile of hokum akin to 'Serious charge' starring Cliff Richard. No vids to link this time and this one if for completist only...check my quick- fire follow up post of Plan B 10/6/11 for some choonage. You know the drill...

The songs (slim pickings folks!)


'Flaming star'- Not bad...
'A cane and a high starched collar'- hideous country dancing nightmare!

An 'actual' film from Elvis (directed by Don Siegel): Elvis plays a mixed- race dude, there's a scene where someone gets an axe in the head (I'm sure that never happens again); Elvis' mum almost get raped by hicks in the scene where he unleashes his vengence with the axe and to round it off he shivs a native- American. Despite all this I can remember next to nothing about this film which falls flat and lands somewhere in the column with 'Love me tender'. Brace yourself folks: were gonna go down hill fast from now on!

Elvis= Pacer Burton

Score= 6/10

Elvis Score= 2/3

Leading lady= N0ne

Songs= 2

Viewed= 14/12/07

I barely remember this one and I have since discovered that Elv was dating the greatly-monkired (wild gild, single- mother lush) Tuesday Weld. We have Elv killing his brother; he's on parole; strange relationship with his probation officer..This one is pretty dull, overlong but with surprisingly few songs. Elv goes good and gets to college in the end but the MILF parole officer attempts suicide and admits she has a heart defect?! It's like Murder she wrote!


Songs-


'Wild in the country'- forgettable ballad
'I tripped, I stumbled, I fell'- Pretty good serenade in his truck?!
'?'- Slow forgettable song to the 'lush' (Tuesday)


Good dialogue!

'He's got a cup full of anger ready to spill over'!

Elvis= Glen Tyler

Score= 5/10

Elvis Score= 2/3

Leading lady= Hope Lange

Songs= 3

Viewed= 18/12/07