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Plot summary
Between rodeo seasons, Lonnie Beale looks for work. A friend in the Western town of Zuni Wells had promised him a ranch job, but the friend cannot be found. Lonnie sings in a local club instead and loses that job after a fight with a customer. Vera Radford, who watches him perform, offers him work with the horses at the Circle-Z, the ranch she runs. The place is not what he expects: a fitness salon called Yogurt Gulch where actresses and models come to lose weight. His singing disrupts the schedule, and he follows Pam Meritt to the ghost town of Silverado, where she says a relative hid a treasure.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tickle Me (1965)
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- Tickle Me, the only Elvis Presley film released by Allied Artists Pictures, became the third highest-grossing film in that studio's history and saved it from bankruptcy.
- Tickle Me was the only Elvis Presley film whose soundtrack contained no new material; it used album cuts dating back as early as 1960, some of them overdubbed for the film.
- Elvis Presley was paid $600,000 plus $150,000 in expenses and half the profits, while the below-the-line costs finished at $406,400, making Tickle Me the cheapest of his films to date.
- Elvis Presley won a 1966 Golden Laurel Award for best male performance in a musical film, the only acting award he received during his film career.
- Although Tickle Me was an Allied Artists production, the film was actually shot at Paramount Pictures Studios, which Allied hired for the duration of the shoot.
