Forty years ago today, Elvis Presley "died."

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9. Thank ya. Thank ya verra much.

There was a thread in the DU Lounge about two months ago. Someone challenged DUers to name a movie they thought was great but underrated. Someone brought up Bubba Ho-Tep:

Bubba Ho-Tep is a 2002 American comedy horror film written, co-produced and directed by Don Coscarelli. It stars Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley — now a resident in a nursing home. The film also stars Ossie Davis as Jack, a black man who claims to be John F. Kennedy, explaining that he was patched up after the assassination, dyed black, and abandoned.
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Plot

An elderly man at The Shady Rest Retirement Home in East Texas is known to the staff as Sebastian Haff, but claims to be Elvis. He explains that during the 1970s, Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) grew tired of the demands of his fame and switched places with an Elvis impersonator named Sebastian Haff (also Campbell). He claims it was Haff who eventually died in 1977, while he, the real Elvis, lived in quiet, happy anonymity and made a living pretending to be himself. After a propane explosion destroyed documentation which was the only proof that he was actually Elvis, he was unable to return to his old lifestyle.

It is funny. I found the DVD of it at a yard sale soon after the post appeared. I've seen it on cheapskate (over-the-air) TV.