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* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Josh and Jodie look exactly like, both being played by Elvis Presley and with an InUniverse explanation of being distantly related. The differencea are that Josh has Elvis' trademark black hair, while Jodie has blonde, and Jodie speaks with a backwoods drawl. They perform the title song together.

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* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Josh and Jodie look exactly like, both being played by Elvis Presley and with an InUniverse explanation of being distantly related. The differencea differences are that Josh has Elvis' trademark black hair, while Jodie has blonde, and Jodie speaks with a backwoods drawl. They perform the title song together.
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* ClashingCousins: Jodie wrestles with Josh even after learning they're cousins and remains very hostile to him until the end.


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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The Kittyhawks will swarm and force themselves on any newcomer male (except Captain Salbo, who's apparently not up to their standards). This is played for laughs and the men who fall into their hands aren't upset at their predicament (except our upstanding hero Josh, but even then it's more because the Kittyhawks get in the way of the mission).


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* AManIsAlwaysEager: The soldiers that get kidnapped and then ravished by the Kittyhawks are quite happy with their situation. Only Josh resists them, and he only manages to convince the other soldiers to stand to attention when he points out heads will roll if the general catches them fooling around.
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* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Josh and Jodie look exactly like, both being played by Elvis Presley and with an InUniverse explanation of being distantly related. The difference is that Josh has Elvis' trademark black hair, while Jodie has blonde.

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* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Josh and Jodie look exactly like, both being played by Elvis Presley and with an InUniverse explanation of being distantly related. The difference is differencea are that Josh has Elvis' trademark black hair, while Jodie has blonde.blonde, and Jodie speaks with a backwoods drawl. They perform the title song together.
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* KissingCousins: Josh courts his two female third cousins, pairing up with Azalea in the end, while Selena goes with the unrelated Sgt. Bailey. Incidentally, Josh uses the expression "kissing cousins" with its other meaning of "two things that resemble each other" to describe the strong resemblance between him and Jodie.

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* KissingCousins: Josh courts his two female third cousins, pairing up with Azalea in the end, while Selena goes with the unrelated Sgt. Bailey. Incidentally, Josh uses the expression "kissing cousins" with its other meaning of "two things that resemble each other" to describe the strong resemblance between him and Jodie.Jodie (giving the movie a DoubleMeaningTitle).

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* IdenticalStranger: Josh and Jodie look exactly like, both being played by Elvis Presley and with an InUniverse explanation of being distantly related. The difference is that Josh has Elvis' trademark black hair, while Jodie has blonde.



* ReassignedToAntarctica: Captain Salbo is threatened with permanent reassignment to Greenland if he fails to convince the Tatum family to lease the land. Salbo tells Josh that he'll make sure this punishment extends to him as well when Josh snarkily tells him the Army had better pick another mountain.

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* ReassignedToAntarctica: Captain Salbo is threatened with permanent reassignment to Greenland if he fails to convince the Tatum family to lease the land. Salbo tells Josh that he'll make sure this punishment extends to him as well when Josh snarkily tells him the Army had better pick another mountain.mountain.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Josh and Jodie look exactly like, both being played by Elvis Presley and with an InUniverse explanation of being distantly related. The difference is that Josh has Elvis' trademark black hair, while Jodie has blonde.
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Music/ElvisPresley's 14th feature film, ''Kissin' Cousins'' is a 1964 comedy musical film directed by Gene Nelson.

The US Army wants to use a mountain on Tennessee as an ICBM base, but is unable to negotiate with the Tatum family, the tenacious hillbillies inhabiting the place. Faced with permanent reassignment to Greenland if he fails, Captain Robert Salbo (Creator/JackAlbertson) gets assigned a soldier with blood ties to the Tatums, Second Lieutenant Josh Morgan (Presley), to help. When they arrive in Tatum territory on the Great Smoky Mountains, Josh meets his cousins, two lovely young ladies called Selena (Creator/PamelaAustin) and Azalea (Creator/YvonneCraig), and Josh's practically twin cousin Jodie (Presley in a dual role). Selena and Azalea are sweet on Josh, which might prove to be the key to convince Pappy (Creator/ArthurOConnell) and Ma (Creator/GlendaFarrell) Tatum to lease the land.
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* ApronMatron: Ma Tatum is a tough matriarch who will happily pull a wrestling throw on Jodie when he fails to obey her orders.
* DeepSouth: The Tatums are Tennessee mountain folk and are portrayed as barely literate, retrograde people who don't see a problem with courting their cousins. A Confederate flag decorates their home. Most of this is played for humor.
* GreenAroundTheGills: Salbo turns green when Ma Tatum informs him that the dinner she has served consists of "opossum tails, owl gizzards, and grits fried in bear grease. And then that there gravy, that's just goat's milk with vulture eggs and mashed catfish eyes."
* HillbillyMoonshiner: Pappy Tatum's moonshine business is a crucial plot point at the end, as Josh finally convinces him to lease the land by promising that the Army will get the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco,_Firearms_and_Explosives#History "revenoors"]] off his back.
* IdenticalStranger: Josh and Jodie look exactly like, both being played by Elvis Presley and with an InUniverse explanation of being distantly related. The difference is that Josh has Elvis' trademark black hair, while Jodie has blonde.
* KissingCousins: Josh courts his two female third cousins, pairing up with Azalea in the end, while Selena goes with the unrelated Sgt. Bailey. Incidentally, Josh uses the expression "kissing cousins" with its other meaning of "two things that resemble each other" to describe the strong resemblance between him and Jodie.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Captain Salbo is threatened with permanent reassignment to Greenland if he fails to convince the Tatum family to lease the land. Salbo tells Josh that he'll make sure this punishment extends to him as well when Josh snarkily tells him the Army had better pick another mountain.

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