![]() ![]() ![]() He's picked up by Byron Gruman (Jonathon Schaech), a despondent young man drifting aimlessly after losing his wife. Harvey Keitel stars as a hitchhiking impersonator convinced that he is the genuine article, bound and determined to reach his old Graceland home. "If only I coulda seen what was happening to me," Donner's Presley says over the archival footage, "I mighta done something about it." Narrator Ral Donner assumes Presley's voice to offer some insights the man might have had, had he lived to look back on that period. Singled out was the look into the singer's state of health by the last year of his life. ![]() Variety called the blend of styles in "This is Elvis" "an imaginative combination," backed up by plenty of Presley's greatest hits. Colonel Tom Parker allowed the release of home movies and shooting on the Graceland property (per film critic Roger Ebert) and the result was a striking illustration at the long deterioration of Presley's health, even as his charisma before an audience endured. But the most striking element of the film at the time of its release in 1981 was the look into Presley's life through his own material. Three different actors play a young Presley for recreations, and various figures in his life offer remembrances and narration. ![]()
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