Movie2024·US·1h 31min

Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley

Name: Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 2024-11-12T00:00:00Z
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Elvis Presley, Jason Hehir, Priscilla Presley, Darlene Love, Jerry Schilling

Elvis had one chance to show the world he was still the King of Rock N’ Roll

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Nov2024

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Little Room Films Words + Pictures

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Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (2024) is a music documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Jason Hehir — the filmmaker behind The Last Dance — turns his eye to a single December night in 1968: the NBC special that brought Elvis back from two years of movie soundstages and reminded everyone he still owned the room.

Priscilla Presley, guitarist Darlene Love, and longtime confidant Jerry Schilling walk through what it actually took to get Elvis in front of a live audience again. Then the film opens out: Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Baz Luhrmann each weigh in on why that performance still registers. Hehir treats it less as biography and more as a close read of a single moment — the distance between a star people had started to dismiss and the version who walked out under those lights.

Watch Return of the King (2024) online on iFILM — the sharpest account yet of how Elvis reclaimed his standing on live television.

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