L'amour sauvage

Titre original : Wild in the Country

1961
Approved
1h 54m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,3/10

2,2 k

MA NOTE

Elvis Presley, Tuesday Weld, Hope Lange, and Millie Perkins in L'amour sauvage (1961)

A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.

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Drama Musical

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.

Director
- Philip Dunne
Writers
- Clifford Odets
- J.R. Salamanca
Stars

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,3/10

2,2 k

MA NOTE

Director
- Philip Dunne
Writers
- Clifford Odets
- J.R. Salamanca
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Mr. Parsons
(uncredited)

Mark Bailey

Sheriff
(uncredited)

Walter Baldwin

Mr. Spangler
(uncredited)

Joe Butham

Mr. Dace
(uncredited)

Pat Buttram

Mr. Longstreet
(uncredited)

Harry Carter

Bartender
(uncredited)

Linden Chiles

Doctor
(uncredited)

Commentaires des utilisateurs38

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kwbucsfan

another great movie

This is yet another great Elvis movie. It's great to see how a young kid who is dealt a very bad hand in life, with an abusive father and brother, with the death of his mother as a child and being guilty until proven innocent by the town comes out on top. It has good songs, but is not a musical. Again another great plot with a strong supporting cast, with Tuesday Weld and Gary Lockwood to name a few. I give this movie 4 and a half stars.

6shepardjessica

Beautiful babes w/decent Elvis!

This film (written by Clifford Odets of all people) is one of the better ones in Elvis' track record. The women are all beautiful accomplished actresses, especially Tuesday Weld, Hope Lange, and Millie Perkins. Good story-line involving moonshine and other things important to most small-town Americans.

Not as interesting or involving as King Creole, this movie has qualities and showed that Elvis could have been a good actor if he wasn't doing tripe scripts all the time. This is a normal movie without unnecessary fight scenes or boring young actresses PRETENDING to think The King is a hot guy. Check this one out. Well worth your time for movie-lovers and Elvis fans.

7HarryLags

Elvis is Great in Wild In The Country!

Released in 1961, Wild In The Country would offer Elvis his last serious role in a film by a significant director (Philip Dunne). He gives what may be his finest acting performance as a troubled young man from a dysfunctional family whose passion is really writing.

There were fine supporting roles played by Millie Perkins as his girlfriend Betty Lee, Tuesday Weld as his cousin Noreen, and Hope Lange as his psychiatrist.

Wild In The Country is ranked high as one of my all time favourite Elvis movies, it's a bit slow moving at the start, but as you keep watching it gets better and better, this movie is worth the watch to see Elvis as an actor... He is great in this movie!

Conclusion - Great Movie.. 7/10.

9aidosh94

I love this movie! 9/10

"A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career." Do me a favour: Do not think of this movie as any other Elvis flick, because this is one of the best classic films I've seen. Well, he sings a couple songs to his lovers and he gets into a couple of fights, but here it just doesn't happen randomly. The plot is excellent and Elvis blew me away with his acting. There's one specific scene where he's sharing stories about his dead mother with Hope Lange and it almost brought me to tears. His acting was very natural, as was Hope Lange's, Tuesday Weld's and Millie Perkins'. This is a fantastic movie and I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

7ODDBear

One of Presley's better vehicles

Wild in the Country is a solid film and one of Presley's best.

Elvis is excellent as a delinquent who happens to be a potentially terrific writer. Psychiatrist Hope Lange helps Elvis achieve his potential and they slowly fall for each other. Elvis only sings a couple of songs here and therefore, instead of a musical, we get a dramatic story that's well acted by all three leads and is genuinely captivating, only falls short towards the end and goes for a sappy conclusion. Overall, one of Presley's best films and he once again proves what a great actor he could have been. 7 out of 10.

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Anecdotes
Elvis Presley's best performances are invariably cited as his three forays into drama, which were natural matches for his chief acting characteristics: petulance, intensity and hidden vulnerability. Not coincidentally, music takes a back seat in most of these three vehicles. In King Creole (1958), based on the plot about a would-be singer, Presley sings a full score of songs. In Flaming Star (1960), there is just one song in the plot. In Wild in the Country (1961), there is only one 'serenade' per female character. The songs were included largely so that, at the very least, an Extended Play soundtrack album could be released for each film and record sales would not be negatively impacted by the time the dramas took to film. King Creole, of course, was one of the best selling albums of Presley's career, but in the case of both Flaming Star and Wild in the Country, no soundtrack album was released outside of a 45rpm single.

Gaffes
In the Elvis drunk scene, when he douses the window with the water hose, the in-between close up shot of the window pane (showing close up the women inside looking out) has no water residue / dripping: next shot back out to Elvis' stance (still water hose spraying) and it's (rightly) soaked.

Citations
Betty Lee Parsons: I have no intention of wasting sympathy on him.
Glenn Tyler: Sympathy is never wasted, Betty Lee. One way or another, you get it back, or so it says in the Book.