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Color? and Jimmy Tompkins

posted 9 years ago by HenriettaDemina
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Couple of questions about this listing more than actually about the movie.

Technical spec and one trivia item indicate it was in color, but most of the stills are black and white. Just wondered why that is?

In the quotes it has Elvis' character shown as Jimmy Tompkins, even though the descriptions and dialog of other characters are shown as Deke Rivers. What's going on there?

[–] Tiggerama 9 years ago

Loving you is definitely in colour, maybe the stills photographer used black and white film. I have seen some colour stills, or they could be screen caps, I don't know.

Elvis's character was known as "Deke Rivers" but "Jimmy Tompkins" is his real name. He took on the name Deke Rivers after running away from an orphanage and coming across the name on a headstone.

[–] HenriettaDemina 9 years ago

Thanks Tiggerama!