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| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 13 March 1969 | USA | USD 1,500,000 |
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 13 March 1969 | USA | USD 1,500,000 |
I was never and Elvis fan, my mother would drag me to the cinema to see all his awful films with those dreadful songs, put me off him for life.However I had ever heard of this one, this is the film he should have made first and kept on making ones like it instead of the aforementioned musicals.
It's an overall shame to see Elvis finally in a movie where he doesn't have to embarrass himself, and the best they could give him is a western that started out with much more violence and nudity then was rewrote and sadly fills like a neutered episode of The Virginian, and it shows in his performance. The supporting cast isn't nothing to go on about either, other then a fine performance by Victor French as the bad guy.
Great score and song, but the film itself doesn't quite match those two things.Elvis Presley stars as the lead in 'Charro!
Outlaw Elvis tries to go straight & get the girl, but the bad guys don't want to let him go!
If people would let go of the expectation for Elvis to sing in EVERY movie, then perhaps the ratings wouldn't be unfairly low.This movie is a good Western.
Famous among Elvis films as the only film in which Elvis appears with facial hair (it's also the only Elvis film in which he does not sing at all). This is actually Elvis' most mediocre western overall, but it isn't his fault.
Released in 1969, "Charro" stars Elvis as Jess Wade, an ex-outlaw whose former gang seeks to pin the blame on him for stealing a gold cannon from a Mexican shrine. Wade ends up trying to protect the Arizona town that holds one of the gang members in jail from the gang's cannon assault.
Jess Wade (Elvis Presley) used to be a member of a gang in the old west. However, he's seen the error of his ways and quit some time ago.
Jess Wade (Elvis Presley in a straight role , being the only character in which he wears beard) is a reformed outlaw confronting against the members of his old band . The violent band is commanded by Hackett (Victor French of House of prairie) and the hoodlums are Gunner (James B Sikking, future TV star) and his brother Billy (Salomon Sturges, son of famed director Preston Sturges), among others .
