Kissin' Cousins

Kissin' Cousins (1964)

ELViS feudin' ELViS lovin' ELViS swingin'....as he joins his mountain kinfolk for a hey, hey, hayride to good ol' mountain music!

Army officer Josh Morgan returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow a missile site to be built on their land. Once he arrives, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.

Date of release
1964-03-06
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (43)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Comedy, Music, Romance
Director
Gene Nelson

Casting

Interesting facts

Kissin' Cousins is a 1964 American musical Panavision Metrocolor comedy film directed by Gene Nelson, and starring Elvis Presley. Written by Gerald Drayson Adams and Gene Nelson, and produced by Sam Katzman, the film features Presley in a dual role: Josh Morgan, a dark-haired Air Force officer, and Jodie Tatum, his blonde, look-alike distant cousin, a hillbilly who lives with his family in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

Production, release and box office

While set in the Great Smoky Mountains, Kissin' Cousins was shot in the Los Angeles area, both on set at MGM Studios and outdoors in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles; some filming took place in Big Bear Lake.

The film was produced by Sam Katzman for Four-Leaf Productions, and was distributed in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was released in the United States on March 6, 1964, and reached #11 on the Variety National Box Office Chart, earning $3 million, and finished at #26 on the year end list of the top-grossing movies of 1964.

Sam Katzman produced an unsuccessful 1965 MGM Television television pilot starring Edd Byrnes for the NBC television network.

In December 1988, Kissin' Cousins made its home video debut. When it was reissued on VHS in 1997, the song "Smokey Mountain Boy" was deleted. It was later restored to the film when it made its DVD debut in 2007.

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