Short film about the birth of a musical legend
With Xander Berkeley, from Shanghai Noon
Directed by Gabriel Robertson · Starring Xander Berkeley, Brady Permenter, Amye Gousset · 2015
Tupelo, 1946: a mother takes her son to the hardware store for his eleventh birthday, where he has his eye on a rifle rather than what he'll get instead.
A charming true-story glimpse of the moment a future King of Rock and Roll got his first guitar.
Tupelo, Mississippi, 1946. To celebrate his eleventh birthday, a mother takes her son to the local hardware store to get his present, where a .22 rifle catches his attention. With the mother unamused, a helpful store wor
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