Title: Stay Away, Joe
Company: MGM
Producer: Douglas Laurence
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Screenplay: Michael A. Hoey (based on a novel by Dan Cushman)
Co-actors: Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, Henry Jones, L.Q. Jones, Quentin Dean.
Length: 98 min.
First appearance: March 14, 1968
Storyline: Another Elvis-comedy, in which he plays the young Navajo-Indian, motor-driver, girlhunter, and rodeo-rider Joe Lightcloud, who gets in trouble constantly. Joe convinces a congress-man to give him 20 cows and a bull to make it possible for his tribe to start a cattle. During one of Joe's parties the bull gets exchanged with one of the cows and slaughtered. To get money for a new bull, Joe sells some cows. Comic incidents follow each other and finally Joe's family seems to get imprisoned for selling government-property. But Joe takes care of his tribe, by riding a wild bull and winning a prize.
Songs: Stay away, Stay away Joe, Dominique
Soundtrack: -


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