MOVIE TRAILER During the filming of Stay Away, Joe STAY AWAY, JOE "STAY AWAY, JOE" is a 1968 Western comedy based on the 1953 novel by Dan Cushman. However, the screenplay was taken from the badly produced Broadway musical "WHOOP-UP," a script with a dismal storyline and characters. One would think, that if the Broadway production was a big failure, the screenplay’s writer would observe and avoid the failures. LOCATION On the set of Stay Away, Joe STAY AWAY, JOE "STAY AWAY, JOE" was filmed at Merry-Go-Round Rock on Schnebly Hill Road in Sedona, Arizona. BOX OFFICE PREVIOUS LOCATION Scene still from Stay Away, Joe STAY AWAY, JOE CAST LOCATION Released in the United States on Friday, March 8, 1968, the film reached #65 on the Variety weekly national box office chart for that year. It grossed $1.5 million in the United States. BOX OFFICE CAST STAY AWAY, JOE BOX OFFICE PLOT NEXT Elvis Presley as Joe Lightcloud Joan Blondell as Glenda Callahan Burgess Meredith as Charlie Lightcloud Thomas Gomez as Grandpa Katy Jurado as Annie Lightcloud L.Q. Jones as Bronc Hoverty Henry Jones as Hy Slager Douglas Henderson as Congressman Morrissey Quentin Dean as Mamie Callahan Dick Wilson as Car Salesman Charlie Hodge as Guitar player STAY AWAY, JOE PLOT SOUNDTRACK CAST Joe Lightcloud (played by Elvis Presley) convinces Congressman Morrisey (played by Douglas Henderson) to donate twenty heifers and a prize bull to prove that his Navajo tribe can raise cattle. If successful, the Navajos will receive financial help from the government. As things go, the prize bull is accidentally killed for a barbecue. Joe tries to fix the situation by borrowing, Dominick, an undersexed bull, by holding a contest to see who can stay on Dominick the longest to raise funds. MOVIE RENTAL OR PURCHASE Elvis in the role of Joe Lightcloud. SOUNDTRACK MOVIE POSTER The 1968 movie "Stay Away, Joe," which starred Elvis Presley, didn't have a complete soundtrack album released when the film came out. Instead, the songs from the movie and other related tracks were later included in different compilation and budget albums featuring Elvis Presley. PREVIOUS BACK TO MOVIE DIRECTORY