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Synopsis: Charlie Rogers is a leather-jacketed biker who's fired from a singing engagement after getting into a fight with a group of college toughs. While riding his cycle to the next gig, an irate dad runs him off the road when he flirts with his daughter. He's forced to hook up with a traveling carnival until his bike can be fixed. The carnival is run by a tough old broad, a broken-down drunk and his nubile daughter. Along the way, Charlie (who's got a chip on his shoulder about being an orphan) somehow learns about family values from this vaguely dysfunctional one. A scheming rival carny shows up, based on the legend of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's real-life manager.
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Director(s): John Rich
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
PG
Year:
1964
101 min
273 Views


There's nothing to talk about!

You're gonna pay for this bike.

- You talk big!

- We have enough trouble.

- Trouble I made?!

- She didn't say that.

- That's what she meant!

- That's exactly what I meant!

I hate to break up a family argument,

but who's gonna pay for this?

I'll send somebody back

for your bike.

Some men from the carny.

The carnival. I own it.

We're setting up

at the picnic grounds.

- What about this?

- I'll buy a new one.

Get into the Jeep.

OK. Just don't try

to pay me off in cotton candy.

- Let me give you a hand.

- Get your hands off her.

- Easy, pop.

- Don't call me pop.

Mom? Just kidding. Just kidding.

Maggie, you get in the back.

I want Cathy up here with me.

- My name's Charlie Rogers.

- OK.

- Look, I didn't do nothing.

- My name's Cathy Lean.

Cathy, turn around.

Where do you want the platform

for the skin show?

- lsn't it staked out?

- Yeah, but we're not sure.

Can't you guys do anything right?

Come on.

- This place don't show much.

- Wait till you see it at night.

- Hope I don't have to.

- You'll be around for a while.

They're not big with Japanese

motorcycle parts out here.

- Show him around. I'll park.

- OK.

If I'd known he was a kook,

I wouldn't have buzzed him out there.

He's not a kook.

Sure. Everybody goes around knocking

guys off bikes just for looking.

He's my father. He worries about me.

She worries about him.

Everyone needs somebody

to worry about them.

- They're good friends.

- Sure.

What did I say this time?

- It's what you didn't say.

- All right.

If I take my foot out of my mouth,

will you show me around?

All right.

I don't know where to start, but...

What's with this tennis court?

The lines show where to stick front

end, pig iron and butchers' shops.

How's that?

The concessions,

rides and candy stands.

I see. What's this over here?

- What's a hot wagon?

- Generator truck.

- Drome? That's the...?

- It's right over there.

High wall, motorcycle stunts.

This wouldn't happen to be...?

Donniker, exactly

what it sounds like. The rest room.

- Grease joint?

- Hamburger stand. Right over here.

What are the big fans for?

They blow the smell of onions around.

Makes people hungry.

Pretty good.

Here we have the Mugg Joint.

Photo gallery.

"You don't know how you look

till you get your picture took."

Just what I thought.

The Dirty Show.

Not what you're thinking.

They throw baseballs

- and knock a girl into a water tank.

- What's dirty about that?

The lot lice

get their jollies from it.

Look, I know I'm supposed to know,

but what's lot lice?

- Customers who don't spend.

- Why don't you speak English?

For the same reason doctors

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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