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Just two years after Elvis Presley passed away, Kurt Russell brought him back to life in the original biopic about the King of Rock n Roll. Released through ABC in 1979, Elvis marked the first time director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell would work together in what would become a legendary pairing in film history (Escape From New York, Big Trouble In Little China, The Thing and Escape From L.A.).
Tracing Presleys life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant return to Las Vegas, Elvis features Shelley Winters (Gladys Presley), Season Hubley (Priscilla Presley), Bing Russell (Kurts real-life father as Vernon Presley), Pat Hingle (Colonel Tom Parker), Joe Mantegna (Memphis Mafia member Joe Esposito) and Ed Begley Jr. (drummer D.J. Fontana) in an all-star supporting cast for an effort that garnered numerous Emmy nominations including Outstanding Lead Actor for Russell. Restored From The Original Film Elements.
- Revelation Films
- John Carpenter
- U
- Kurt Russell
- English
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Just two years after Elvis Presley passed away, Kurt Russell brought him back to life in the original biopic about the King of Rock n Roll. Released through ABC in 1979, Elvis marked the first time director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell would work together in what would become a legendary pairing in film history (Escape From New York, Big Trouble In Little China, The Thing and Escape From L.A.).
Tracing Presleys life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant return to Las Vegas, Elvis features Shelley Winters (Gladys Presley), Season Hubley (Priscilla Presley), Bing Russell (Kurts real-life father as Vernon Presley), Pat Hingle (Colonel Tom Parker), Joe Mantegna (Memphis Mafia member Joe Esposito) and Ed Begley Jr. (drummer D.J. Fontana) in an all-star supporting cast for an effort that garnered numerous Emmy nominations including Outstanding Lead Actor for Russell. Restored From The Original Film Elements.
- Revelation Films
- John Carpenter
- U
- Kurt Russell
- English
- 2
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Great Elvis!
Just after he stunned the world with "Halloween" Carpenter followed that success with two TV-movies. First "Someone's Watching Me!" with among others his soon to be bride: Adrienne Barbeau. A ver y good and scary one. Then this. A excellent portrait of a star, Elvis. Kurt Russell is perfect as the lead. Emmy-nominated of course. Also Golden globe-nominated in the category: Best Motion Picture Made for TV. The cast is overall in the class of an "real" movie. It was cut and shown in Europe that way. But here is the original. And not a minute to much. More than 2,5 h, but the time just flies away. A first but certainly not the last for Carpenter and Russell.
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