JUST A GIGOLO

12 FILM EXTRAS

1978 OUT NOW BD EXTRAS Commentary, Featurette, CD soundtrack, Booklet

Dismissed by David Bowie as being “my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one,” this tonally uneven, but still enjoyable, comic melodrama casts the chameleonic singer as a Prussian WW1 veteran who returns home to Berlin and ends up working as a high-class gigolo. As is often the case with curios such as this, the most interesting stories come from the other side of the camera. But what else would you expect from a film whose extraordinary cast also includes Kim Novak and Marlene Dietrich? Anton van Beek