Wild in the Country is a 1961 film drama starring Elvis Presley in which he portrays a troubled young man from a dysfunctional family who pursues a literary career. The screenplay was written by playwright Clifford Odets. The movie starts off with Glenn Tyler getting into a fight with, and badly injuring, his drunken brother. A court releases him on probation into the care of his uncle in a small town, appointing Irene Sperry to give him psychological counselling. Marked as a trouble-maker, he is falsely suspected of various misdemeanors including an affair with Irene. Eventually shown to... be innocent, he leaves to go to college and become a writer. Filmed on location in the Napa Valley and in Hollywood Studios, although it is set in the Shenandoah Valley, the cast and crew created a public sensation in Napa for over two months of filming. The motel that they stayed at, Casa Beliveau was so mobbed that Elvis had to be moved to the St. Helena home that was being used in the film as Irene Sperry's house where Glenn Tyler went for counseling.
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| Release date: | June 15, 1961 |
| Directed by: | Philip Dunne |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 114 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jerry Wald |
| Editor: | Dorothy Spencer |
| Music by: | Kenyon Hopkins |
| Cinematography: | William C. Mellor |
| Screenplay by: | J.R. Salamanca, Clifford Odets |
| Adapted from: | The lost country |
| Genre: | Musical |