Kissin' Cousins

1964

Action / Comedy / Musical / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 2677 2.7K

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Plot summary

An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a look-alike cousin.

Director

Gene Nelson Photo
Gene Nelson

Top cast

Arthur O'Connell Photo
Arthur O'Connell as Pappy Tatum
Cynthia Pepper Photo
Cynthia Pepper as PFC Midge Reilly
Elvis Presley Photo
Elvis Presley as Josh Morgan / Jodie Tatum
Pamela Austin Photo
Pamela Austin as Selena Tatum
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885.44 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 1
1.61 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by beauzee 6 / 10

good soundtrack, a few laughs, not bad

Elvis is not engaged here at all and who could blame him? by late '63 he surely expected to be making one serious picture after another.nonetheless, storyline happens to be very entertaining > the Military heads desperate to secure ol' Smoky Mountain for their missile site, while trying not to be swept away from the sexed up "kittyhawks", bring a smile.did not need "two Elvis(s)"....but whatever. they both sing real good. as one song suggests, "ON(C)E IS ENOUGH".title tune is particularly strong, shoulda-coulda been a smash...guess the competition from overseas at the time, like, his many imitators, cut down on his airplay. KISSIN' COUSINS/IT HURTS ME (not from film) was as good as many singles from the previous decade!
Reviewed by dave13-1 5 / 10

Elvis does Li'l Abner

Elvis returns to the military comedy genre a few years after 'GI Blues' in this hillbilly romp about a pilot recruited to help convince his kin folk to let the S.A.C. put a missile silo on their land. Elvis also plays a secondary role as his look-alike hillbilly cousin. The material is straight out of Li'l Abner - man-crazy half-dressed hillbilly females, disgusting possum based cuisine, a mournful coon hound and a patriarch named Pappy, not to mention moonshiners with a powerful dislike for 'Revenuers'. It's pretty familiar stuff, but dished up with enough energy and amiability that for once the whole exercise manages to rise above the usual (low) formulaic quickie level of the 'Elvis movie'. There are a few half decent songs and a couple of rousing musical numbers in the spirit of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (albeit much less elaborately choreographed). Of interest - leading actress Yvonne Craig became famous two years later as Batgirl.
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