Tarantino's First

Ever heard of 'My Best Friend's Birthday'? It is known to be Tarantino's first produced and first directed movie. The flick was shot on a 16mm camera, hence the quality of the images. However also the acting (Tarantino is reasonable though) and sound are lousy. Why then post the movie?

I reckon it is, despite its overall quality, still an intersting flick to watch since some of the elements used (Elvis, pop-culture elements and the kung-fu scenes) hint to his later movies. Most of 'My Best Friend's Birthday' got lost in a fire, however what remained was 35 mins of footage that has become a collectors item for Tarantino fans.

Full plot: Clarence Pool (Tarantino, with a full-on "Elvis Man" look) is a disc jockey at K-BILLY Radio (Reservoir Dogs' music conductor in a sense), and is planning to give his friend Micky Burnett (co-writer Craig Hamann) a call-girl for his birthday party (a story later re-used for True Romance). This is used as more of a signpost for the film to follow as the characters, in particular Clarence, go off on riffs of Dialog - the "I'd f*** Elvis" speech is in its first revelation - and it's often very funny (IMDB).