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Change Of Habit

1969, Movie, G, 93 mins

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If you can believe Elvis as a hip doctor running a free clinic in a Puerto Rican slum, you might like this film. Three nuns leave their habits behind when they come to the tough neighborhood to help out at the clinic. One of them, Moore, becomes attracted to Elvis, and at the fade-out we're left guessing whether she'll give up her calling for the King. In perhaps the film's most disturbing sequence, Moore undresses for bed while an unbalanced teenager lurks in her closet, getting an eyeful. His attempted rape of Moore results in a scene that is especially distasteful, a blatant move by the producers to inject sex into an otherwise plodding film. For an Elvis film, CHANGE OF HABIT is short on songs. They include "Change of Habit," "Have A Happy," "Let Us Pray" (Ben Weisman, Buddy Kaye), and "Rubberneckin"' (Bunny Warren). leave a comment
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