While it was a good move for iconic silver-screen gunslinger Clint Eastwood, the same can't be said for Elvis Presley.
The Big Picture Sometimes the careers of iconic legends pass like two ships in the night, unaware that their paths have come so close together. That was the case with the greatest rock and roll icon of all time and arguably the biggest Western movie star ever. The year was 1969 and the film in question was looking for the newest star in Hollywood whose trajectory was pointing due North. It had the established gunslinger star Clint Eastwood written all over it.
What Is 'Charro!' About? Jess Wade is a bad guy who has broken good and wants to defend the people of a small Mexican town from his former dangerous and motley crew of ne'er-do-wells who have bad intentions — some seriously bad men. At the beginning of the film, Jess wastes no time walking into the town saloon and getting into a gunfight with his former crew.
Again, Charro! is not an awful film as far as Westerns from the period go. But compared to the Dollars Trilogy, it's not on the same level, and it's debatable whether even a Morricone harmonica soundtrack and cowboy king Eastwood could have lifted a relatively staid script and story. So, Elvis Presley, who was floundering a bit in his acting career in the late '60s jumped on the part and made a pretty good film even as his Hollywood star was fading.
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