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, ...
Released:
1969
Rated:
G
Length:
93 mins