Hound Dog Controversy
Kampmeier says â œif you have a hand hitting the ground dakota screaming â stopâ.
Hound dog controversy. The main controversy appears to centre around a rape scene in the film a scene which has managed to upset some people who hadnâ t even seen it. Even before the first screening this week of hounddog at the sundance film festival in park city utah a christian film critic citing fanning s age decried the movie as child abuse and.
Recorded originally by big mama thornton on august 13 1952 in los angeles and released by peacock records in late february 1953 hound dog was thornton s only hit record selling over 500 000 copies spending 14 weeks in the r b charts including seven weeks at number one. Note that fanning is never depicted in a suggestive or graphic manner in the film let alone nude.
Penn also serves as an executive producer the film was produced by raye dowell jen gatien and terry leonard. Hound dog is a twelve bar blues song written by jerry leiber and mike stoller.
The show garners high ratings. They invited readers to hear him sing heartbreak hotel hound dog and his other great recording hits presley had performed previously in jacksonville in 1955 with some notable results both for his music and for the local keepers of moral turpitude.
A drama set in the american south where a precocious troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of elvis presley. A precocious but troubled young girl living in 1950s era alabama seeks solace in the music of elvis presley in director deborah kampmeier s controversial tale of childhood trauma and musical healing.
With dakota fanning david morse piper laurie granoldo frazier.
