Elvis – That’s the Way It Is
- When Elvis stopped making movies in Hollywood and returned to making music following his triumphant 1968 comeback, he gathered together a group of hot Nashville cats to back him up. THAT’S THE WAY IT IS follows Elvis as he prepares to return to the stage and follows him up to his opening nights. This is a compelling, fascinating, and highly amusing musical documentary where Elvis’ overall
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Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Release Date: 7-AUG-2007
Media Type: DVDAmazon.com
This 1970 concert documentary captures Elvis Presley midway through a fateful transition, seeking to reclaim his musical primacy after a decade of self-imposed exile from concert stages. Sidelined by his big-screen career, eclipsed by rock’s mid-’60s transformations, the King had begun his return two years earlier with the relatively lean attack of his fabled network television appearance, ’68 Comeback Special. Now the Memphis legend was poised to reposition his performing profile by pursuing the top rungs of headliner status in Las Vegas, a career choice that seems even more ephemeral in hindsight than it already did at the time. Elvis: That’s the Way It Is follows the show’s genesis from rehearsal to stage, with the performance footage that provides its inevitable climax shot over six nigh… More >>
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Rating: 5 / 5
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Rating: 5 / 5
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Rating: 4 / 5
RCA/BMG, Warner and anyone that sells Elvis products, know that the “hardcore” fans will buy just about anything related to Elvis. As to this DVD set, could it have been better? Yes. But I don’t really have any big problem with it.
Rating: 5 / 5
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Rating: 5 / 5