A singing rodeo rider hires on at an expensive all-women dude ranch and beauty spa. He falls for a pretty fitness trainer who is constantly threatened by a gang who wants her late grandfather's cache of gold hidden in a ghost town.
Sound
Elvis sleepwalks through 'I Feel That I've Known You Forever.'
Costume
Lime green ranch wear that haunts my dreams.
Director
Norman Taurog
Elvis Presley
Lonnie Beale / Panhandle Kid
Julie Adams
Vera Radford
Jocelyn Lane
Pam Meritt
Jack Mullaney
Stanley Potter
Merry Anders
Estelle Penfield
Bill Williams
Deputy Sturdivant
Edward Faulkner
Brad Bentley
Connie Gilchrist
Hilda
Barbara Werle
Barbara
John Dennis
Shep Adolph
Grady Sutton
Mr. Dabney
Allison Hayes
Mabel
Lilyan Chauvin
Ronnie
Angela Greene
Donna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Elvis's most financially successful film despite him famously calling it his worst. The King had STANDARDS, apparently.
The 'Dude Ranch for Girls' concept was real—1960s wellness tourism marketed lonely wealthy women packaged fantasy cowboys. Elvis was basically the original Instagram influencer experience.
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