Viva Pod Vegas #033 – The Trouble with Girls (1969)
It’s time for The Trouble with Girls: a good title that does not describe its action at all and, sadly, Elvis’s penultimate film. After getting some more advice about what to cover next, we run through the film’s wild cast and lament how almost none of the many high profile actors spend any time interacting with one another. We also talk through this film’s troubled production history (and the source novel that must be better than this), get sad about the unfortunate placement in Elvis’s film career (at least for our purposes), and debate whether this is really the only movie where Elvis doesn’t fight. Was cannibalism a popular topic in 1927? What is a Chautauqua? We try to find answers. We talk also talk about the tonal shifts that must have been difficult for everyone involved, the the unexpected and illogical murder plot, and why it opens with so many child auditions if they’re never going to pop up again. We find new ground with our games at the end of the episode and look ahead to our final movie, Change of Habit.
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