Not to be confused with Tickle Me Elmo. Tickle Me is a 1965 western comedy-musical starring Elvis Presley. It is also the only Elvis film released by Allied Artists Pictures. It is said to have singlehandedly saved the Allied Artists studio from financial despair, Tickle Me averting bankruptcy with one of songs from its recycled soundtrack, "(Such an) Easy Question" a Top 40 hit in the United States. .
The film was first released onto the home video market in the VHS format in the early '80s in a limited version from Allied Artists Home Video. It was issued again by CBS/Fox video in 1985, 1987 and 1992. Its final VHS issue was from Warner Home Video in 1997. In the summer of 2007, the film was released for the first time on DVD, in the wide-screen letterbox format.
