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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9786305837824
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792164849
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD6376624D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2000
Running Time: 116 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 02, 1958
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Danny Fisher, a teenager with a criminal record becomes a pop singer in New Orleans but is pursued by the local crime boss.
Genre: Musicals
Rating: PG
Release Date: 14-AUG-2007
Media Type: DVD
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Before his handlers convinced him to settle for the safety of a screen franchise, the young Elvis Presley harbored riskier dreams as an actor, not just a star. This 1958 drama, his fourth feature outing, hints at the underlying seriousness of that goal. Presley plays Danny Fisher, a New Orleans teenager struggling to graduate from high school while working in a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family. He's also characterized as a troubled youth with a dangerous temper and feelings of shame and resentment toward his meek, unemployed father (Dean Jagger). When Danny's gift for singing provides him with a potential career break (and the requisite excuse for Elvis's production numbers), his involvement with a ruthless gangster (Walter Matthau) and his sultry, alcoholic moll (Carolyn Jones) soon threatens both his future and his family.
That story line, with Danny torn between a budding romance with a good waitress (Dolores Hart) and the bad moll, Ronnie (Jones), proves as effective as it is predictable, hardly surprising given its source in an early Harold Robbins bestseller. But King Creole also boasts an impressive production pedigree (including the team behind no less a classic than Casablanca, producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz), and the supporting cast helps elicit one of Presley's most emotional performances. Jones in particular rises above her role's inherent clichés, her self-loathing and sexuality both palpable. Presley, still a few years away from the more sanitized image that would be integral to those franchise features, is young enough to be a credible teen, but more crucially he makes his rage and yearning largely convincing.
Ironically, the dramatic sparks prove all the more welcome in light of the largely forgettable music, which variously plunders Chicago blues ("Trouble," a knock-off of "Hoochie Coochie Man") and unconvincingly crosses Presley's Memphis rock with Crescent City jazz ("Dixieland Rock"), all to far less effect than Presley's two preceding movies, Jailhouse Rock and Loving You. --Sam Sutherland
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Released in 1958, King Creole may be Elvis Presley's best movie and performance as an actor. Elvis plays Danny Fisher, a young, tough musician trying to make the big time in New Orleans. The movie soundtrack is also very good and was an innovative attempt to meld traditional Dixieland music with the still new Rock & Roll genre. This is one of the movies that Elvis should be remembered by; before Colonel Parker started churning out mediocre scripts and soundtracks in order to make a quick buck!
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This is my favorite Elvis movie. This movie shows the potential of greatness that could have been. If all of Elvis' material had been written this well, and if he'd been directed this well through out his career...well, it's already been said that Elvis could have been as good as James Dean. Seeing this film makes you believe that. You can find that same potential in "Jailhouse Rock", "Flaming Star" (except for that scene where he sings, how out of place and stupid was that?) and "Wild in the ... Read More
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That gorgeous smile shows up in the first scene. The black and white movie opens with fabulous footage of New Orleans' French Quarter in the '50s, with vendors singing of their produce. A woman on a mule-drawn cart sings "Crawfish," and Elvis leans out a balcony window and joins in her song. As he sings, he ducks back inside and is viewed only through the sheer curtains, tantalizing his fans until the viewer is allowed into the apartment.
Elvis's favorite movie of his is mine, too. Good ... Read More
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Loved this movie. I especially loved the opening scene and number. All around good acting & great musical numbers performed by Elvis. You won't be disappointed.
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Elvis Presley's last movie before he was drafted into the Army. It is his best and has the best soundtrack. Songs like Dixieland Rock and Crawfish, the duet with the black girl, capture his essence. Liliane Montevecchi is showgirl Forty Nina, decked out in bananas. King Creole is set in New Orleans' French Quarter (Vieux Carre). The King Creole is the club where Elvis performs.
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