the only singing you will hear from elvis presley in charro be the title song over the credit at the beginning . after that elvis be all business in charro . he even wear a scraggly beard to emphasize this film would not be your usual elvis funfest . i like the idea that elvis be expand his range a an actor and maybe he might have do more western after this if charro . have be good . presley have do two previous western love me tender and flame star and he acquit himself well in both . but this one be plain ridiculous . victor french and his gang which include his idiot brother solomon sturges steal a solid gold cannon from the museum in chapultepec near mexico city and then schlep the item to the border where french then proceeds to pin the crime on former gang member elvis presley . he even brand him across the neck with a run iron to simulate a bullet wound the leader allegedly get . now that little journey be about 2/3 the length of mexico . never mind and elvis capture sturges and hold him in a jail and get himself appoint deputy sheriff to make it all legal . never mind that and french threatens to use the cannon to level the town because he be smart enough to bring powder and shot and have in james sikking one of stonewall jackson old artillery men . in that other film about a cannon and the pride and the passion the weapon be symbolically a phallic symbol and the illusion be drill into our head and especially with the ridiculous end that charro . have . colonel tom parker whose instinct for film property be pretty good and know elvis type of film be go out of vogue in the late sixty and try to take him in a new direction cinematically with charro . it be just the wrong western to do .