A singing rodeo rider takes a job at an all-female dude ranch, where he gets involved with a physical trainer and a treasure hunt for gold in a ghost town, leading to a showdown with kidnappers.
A complete mess But what a mess! Tickle Me is among the weirdest Elvis movies. It's a got a plot structure similar to spaghetti, just a heap of different strands that cross over and take you in different directions. For the uninitiated, Elvis is a rodeo bull rider who is unemployed in the off season. To get through the off season, he begins work at a fat camp. While at the fat camp he hits on a lady, which leads him to finding out about a treasure map. The treasure map leads to a ghost town and the film turns into an episode of Scooby Doo. In the middle of all of this is a sequence where Elvis plays a swashbuckling cowboy. Undoubtedly it is a unique experience to sit through and if you have a billion monkeys a billion type writers, I'm not sure this script could ever be reproduced. Sounds exciting right? Well before you get on this bull, remember that where there are bulls, there is also bullshit. Tickle Me is still an Elvis movie afterall. There are long stretches of meanderi
