The first part was the most enjoyable, when Elvis was just a young kid getting his career started, when the talent came through and was not overshadowed by fame. Year: 1972 Genre: Documentary Music Directors: Robert Abel, Pierre Adidge TECHNICAL DATA: File Size: 4485 MB Runtime: 01h 33m 11s Video Codec: X264 Average Quantizer: 19.128 Container: Matroska (.mkv) Video Bitrate: 5212 Kbps Resolution: 1920 x 800 FPS (Frames/sec): 23.976 QF (Frame quality): 0. Like Parker, I'm more of a Lawrence Welk man, but Elvis is something special. And I have to mention the black woman at the Cadillac dealership. Tim Guinee as Sam Phillips should be mentioned, and Rose McGowan made a sultry Ann-Margret. He embarked on a film career consisting of 33 films from 1956 to 1969, films that did well at the box-office but mostly panned critically (especially his later films) and while he was a highly charismatic performer he was never. There were many other good acting performances. Elvis Presley was a hugely influential performer with one of the most distinctive singing voices of anybody. He was very convincing as an aging man, and he was shown as quite a schemer, but he was not overdone. Randy Quaid also impressed as Colonel Parker. Camryn Manheim did an outstanding job, and I noticed in the documentary airing later in the week on CBS how much the real Gladys Presley resembled Manheim. I can't recall Elvis' relationship to his mother being shown in such detail. Something I wasn't aware of: Elvis cared about the quality of his movies as much as he cared about good music, but he didn't have as much control over his acting as his singing. Although Elvis cursed more than he ever has in any version of his life I've seen, and he was often abusive to those he was close to, he was an appealing character overall, especially at the beginning of his career. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers did as good a job as I've ever seen portraying the King of Rock and Roll.
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