As Americanias the 4th of July apple pie - and Elvis! It's like a carnival midway and a week at some highfalutin East Coast college all in one. The Chautauqua a traveling 1927 tent show has come to Radford Center Iowa. And so has a heap of trouble. In a change-of-pace role Elvis Presley portrays Walter Hale the white-suited impresario overseeing the Chautauquas novelty acts lectures and close harmonies. The supporting cast is as colorful as the film's vibrant Americana. Vincent Price's Mr. Morality holds forth on immorality. John Carradine appears as a nimble-minded Shakespearean actor. Marlyn Mason Joyce Van Patten Sheree North Edward Andrews and Dabney Coleman also star. And Elvis sings as only he can from the tender ballad Almost to the rousing traditional Swing Low Sweet Chariot and the untraditional rouser Clean Up Your Own Backyard.
Syd is a strung-out wealthy 20-year old guy whose life is about to go from meaningless to futile. After a massive drug spree he awakes to the news that he is about to lose his ""one true love"" forever... Syd's ex-girlfriend is moving from New York to Los Angeles. Syd has one more chance to win her back at her going-away party. Syd stocks up on cocaine and goes off to the party with Bateman a young English banker he's just met. Throughout the evening however - punctuated by regular drug breaks in the bathroom - we discover that Syd's relationship problems involve more than friction with his girlfriend. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?
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