Tickle Me (Allied Artists) (1965)

PUBLICITY SYNOPSIS (Not for Publication) Singing rodeo rider Lonnie Beale drifts into Zuni Wells with his guitar and is hired by Vera Radford, owner of an expensive dude ranch beauty spa, where he is assigned a cottage with handyman Stanley Potter. All the glamour girl patrons fall for the new wrangler and his singing, which means he has to lick Adonis-type swimming coach Brad Bentley. But Pam Merritt, the shapely hysicalp instructor, snubs him as a fortune hunter. She surprises a prowler in her hut and her screams bring Lonnie, but the man escapes. Dept. Sheriff Sturdivant warns she has talked too much about a letter her grandfather wrote directing his kin to his hidden gold. Next day she goes to the ghost town of Silverado. Lonnie finds her in the saloon and they share a reverie, seeing the place as it must have been. He becomes the Panhandle Kid in the flashback; she, Reno Belle; Stanley, the barkeep; Brad, High Card Harry, with whom the Kid shoots it out. That evening during a ranch luau, Lonnie foils two masked men trying to abduct Pam. The men drive into the desert and meet Sturdivant, who berates them for bungling. Pam shows Lonnie the letter, old and frayed, with words unreadable. Later she finds him kissing Vera and will not listen to his explanations. He leaves for the rodeo circuit. Stanley brings him back. They find Pam at Silverado, where a sudden storm strands them all. They put up for the night at the deserted hotel, restored by the historical society. Wax figures of old Western characters add to the eerie atmosphere. A man in a monster mask bursts into Pam's room, demanding the letter. Lonnie floors him, unmasking Adolph, the ranch chef. A hunsan replacement for the "Black Bart'’ dummy and a character in a wolfman mask re main to be dealt with. After a wild fight they go flying out a second-story door into a ditch. Lonnie, Pam and Stanley stumble into the riding place of the gold, which cascades from a cellar wall as Sturdivant confronts them with a gun. Pam knocks him cold with a pick-handle. Brad, sent in search of Pam by Vera, comes in collaring Black Bart and Woldman—Jerry, the groom, and Henry, the gardener. Lonnie and Pam fall into each other's arms. They have a wedding at the ranch and drive off, Lonnie singing to his bride and both oblivious that Stanley, trapped in a washtub he has tied to their car, is being dragged along on the honeymood. THE CAST Moririte 2B eal Qirciccs sce sccsscas.snossieveevsn lets atetore eeetoneh ee oe Elvis Presley PAG Pe REE G 4 here eoe he cccciass diced eRe ee ea eee an eee Jocelyn Lane WER AR AGHORG oe cst toes canteens tie cse epeet euaetau aueduamnate eee Julie Adams Stanley Potter. (i.e. sco.c.ieccsso css tae os Jack Mullaney Estelle. 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Artie Jacobson Bill Reynolds _ Bill Reynolds Art Director...... Arthur Lonergan _ Hairdresser .............. Dean Cole Choreography ...... David Winters Wardrobe...... Shirley Strohm and Costume Designer....Leah Rhodes John Anderson Sound Mixer....Hugo Grenzbach Gaffer ............ Stanley Williams Sound Recorder ...... James Miller Grip ............ Dominic Seminerie Camera Operator .... Kyme Mead An Allied Artists Pictures Res ee Earl Olin and Carl Coleman OFFICIAL BILLING ELVIS PRESLEY in “TICKLE ME” 100% Written by Elwood Ullman 15% & Edward Bernds 15% Produced by Ben Schwalb 15% co-starring Julie Adams 50% Jocelyn Lane 50% Jack Mullaney 50% Merry Anders 25% Bill Williams 25% Panavision and De Luxe Coler 25% Directed by Norman Taurog 15% An Allied Artists Pictures Release 15% PAGE 4. in the feminine rom ELVIS THE KING! Girls, bucking broncos and hidden gold are the chief concerns of Elvis Presley in “Tickle Me,” which brings the swivel-hipped singing star to the screen of the ...... theatre on..... in his latest motion picture. An explosive romantic comedy, the Allied Artists tunefilm in color and Panavision finds Elvis riding a new crest of popularity, the demand for his services in Hollywood having skyrocketed his motion picture salary and the sales of his records now topping $150 million total. To young fans throughout the world here is “Elvis the King.” In “Tickle Me,” he plays a broncbusting rodeo rider roped by East ern sophisticate Julie Adams for the job of singing wrangler on her beauty-spa dude ranch, patronized by wealthy glamour girls, with Jocelyn Lane cast opposite him romantically as physical director on the spread. Dubbed “the British Bardot,” the day she arrived in Hollywood, Jocelyn is a new import from England, a tawny product of the exclusive Lady Evan’s School, operated by the sisterin-law of former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, and columnists linked her romantically with Elvis during the making of the film. Elvis sings nine songs and reprises, two of them in “Tickle Me.” The fast moving plot revolves lt Was Written In The Stars The stars, she says, foretold Jocelyn Lane’s teaming with Elvis Presley and the big break of her career to date in “Tickle Me,” arriving..... a tubele aera theatre. And now, says the curvaceous “British Bardot,” whom Elvis started dating soon after production of the Allied Artists picture began, there’s sudden marriage in her future. The tawny new English glamour import, a product of the exclusive Lady Eden’s School, run by the sisterin-law of former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, is an amateur astrologer, and good enough, she contends with no false modesty, to be a professional. Just before she was brought to Hollywood, she explains, she saw in her horoscope “a stroke of wonderful good fortune in a business way,” coupled with “a meeting with a Capricorn man who would influence me.” Being teamed with Elvis Presley automatically made her one of the screen’s most envied glamour girls, which fit the stroke-of-fortune augury. And Elvis, born January 8, is a Capricorn. Jocelyn was born under the sign of Taurus (the bull). “We're both,” she says, “earth signs. And together they look it. In “Tickle Me,” a romantic widescreen tunefilm in color, Elvis plays a singing, swinging wrangler on a beauty spa dude ranch catering to wealthy women, with Jocelyn as physical instructor for the patrons. Julie Adams, Jack Mullaney (TV’s “My Living Doll”) and Bill Williams co-star under the direction of Norman Taurog, while the picture was produced by Ben Schwalb. TM-1B_ Britain’s version of Brigitte Bardot is Jocelyn Lane who has the feminine romantic lead in Allied Artists “Tickle Me,” which stars Elvis Presley. around a treasure hidden in the Arizona ghost town of Jocelyn’s late grandfather, and Elvis’ efforts to help her find it while beating off a gang of badmen. Jack Mullaney, as his two-left-footed sidekick; Merry Anders, as a ranch patron trying to beat the starvation diet by hook or crook, and Bill Williams, as the crooked sheriff, co-star under the direction of Norman Taurog, and Ben Schwalb produced. Edward Faulkner, Connie Gilchrist, Barbara Werle, John Dennis, Grady Sutton, Allison Hayes, Inez Pedroza, Lilyan Chauvin, Angela Green and a bevy of Bikini bathing beauties are featured in the large cast. TM-4A_ Elvis Presley stars as a singing, swinging wrangler on a beauty spa dude ranch handily stocked with girls in Allied Artists “Tickle Me,” a romantic comedy in color and Panavision, co-starring Julie Adams, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders, Bill Williams and, antic role, English nymphet Jocelyn Lane. Norman Taurog directed for producer Ben Schwalb, ELVIS GIVES TAUROG AN ASSIST “Don’t be a nothing.” Elvis Presley was breaking a rule to lecture a 17-year old girl named Pris, daughter of Norman Taurog, who directed him in “Tickle Me,” NOWeidtatheeeas. ones Theatre. Deluged with requests for advice from teen-agers, and for “tips to teeners” from fan magazines. Elvis usually declines. “I don’t want to preach to anybody,” he says. But he opened up on Pris when her father told him he was helpless to change her mind about not finishing school. “You finish high school and then go to college,” he said. “An education’s the most valuable thing you can get, and I know because J couldn’t go to college. First I didn’t have the money and then I was under contract and too busy. So I’ve had to continue my education on my own. And believe me, that’s tough. “You have an obligation to yourself to be Somebody, and the way to do that is to get an education. So don’t you quit school. Don’t be a nothing.” “Tickle Me” marks the fifth time Taurog has directed the young star. Their other pictures together were “G.I. Blues,” “Girls! Girls! Girls!”, “It Happened at the World’s Fair,” and “Blue Hawaii.” Elvis plays a singing bronco-buster in he current release, which teams him romantically with Jocelyn Lane and co-stars Julie Adams, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders and Bill Williams.