200 Cadillacs

By GRAHAM REID

(Herald rating: * * *)

You give flowers as a thank-you, Elvis gave Cadillacs. This hour-long doco interviews band members, friends, galpals, casual acquaintances and strangers on whom Presley bestowed an automobile.

With songs about the King and his Caddies, period footage of car ads, and stories of his buying sprees (10 cars in 15 minutes), this is a look at a world where money did buy happiness.

Elvis enjoyed giving people cars (and furs, rings, horses and Harleys) but the recipients weren't always happy and often became "the guy Elvis gave a car to". Car porn and oddly interesting.

Label: Warners