Elvis Gratton: Le king des kings (1985) on Netflix
Québécois Elvis impersonator Bob Gratton enters an Elvis contest and is dismayed to find a Chinese performer among the entrants. He and his wife leave for a holiday on Santa Banana.
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Plot summary
A Quebecois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest. He later takes his wife on vacation to the island of Santa Banana.
Cast
- Denise Mercieras Linda Gratton (as Elvis Mercier)
- Marie-Claude Dufouras L'auto-stoppeuse (as Elvis Dufour)
- Reynald Fortinas Général Augusto Ricochet, Général de la RCMP (as Elvis Fortin)
- Florida Girardas Maîtresse de ceremonies (as Elvis Girard)
- Benoît Paiementas Lucien (as Beau-frère d'Elvis Beaudoin)
- Évelyn Regimbaldas Yvette (as Elvis Régimbald)
- Denis Blaisas Le maire Groleau (as Elvis Blais)
- Ronald Houdeas Frank
- Richard Barretteas L'échevin (as Elvis Barrette)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Elvis Gratton: Le king des kings (1985)
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SPOILER
Pierre Falardeau kills off Bob Gratton at the end of the film, but popular pressure brought the character back years later in Elvis Gratton II: Miracle à Memphis. From then on Elvis Gratton became a brand and somewhat mortgaged Julien Poulin's acting career.- Pierre Falardeau, a committed sovereignist, reworked the project out of the disappointment felt after the 1980 Quebec referendum, turning it into Bob Gratton, a Brossard garage owner who admired the Rockies and embodied everything Falardeau symbolically hated.
- Bob Gratton's deliberately wrong pronunciation of "Américains" as "Amaricains" stayed rooted in popular Quebec speech, a mark of the character's lasting influence on the province's culture.
- The character started out as a parking-lot attendant leading a double life as an Elvis Presley impersonator, invented when Radio-Québec offered Pierre Falardeau and Julien Poulin fiction short films to make in the early 1980s.
- Elvis Gratton: Le King des kings is not an original feature: it stitches together three earlier short films, the hit Elvis Gratton and its two follow-ups, Les Vacances d'Elvis Gratton and Pas encore Elvis Gratton!.
