Fact #128555
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Short story:
Just one month after the Elvis Presley film Tickle Me opened nationally in the USA, the studio claims in a Variety advertisement that 5,210 play dates have already been booked. A month later an article in the same publication will imply that Tickle Me has actually saved Allied Artists from going under financially. By the end of the year, the movie will finished at No30 on Variety's list of Big Rental Pictures of 1965 with $3.4m of projected sales.