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King Creole
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305837800
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792164830
Label: Paramount
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 07, 2007
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 02, 1958
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - King Creole
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.
Rating:  - King Creole
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.
Rating: - King Creole
I love this movie! It is one of Elvis' best roles. I originally bought this movie for my boyfriend for his birthday but it soon became one of my favorite films. I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves Elvis or just loves old mobster movies.
Rating: - Best Elvis movie ever
Elvis was a cool guy, but many of his movie musicals are so hokey it's unbearable. Ah, but then there is King Creole! Elvis could have been a superior actor and he proves himself with this one serious role in King Creole.
Oh yes, he sings his heart out in this one too, but the story is really really good. Cheers to Elvis and a great supporting cast for making this work.
Rating: - A great movie by the director of Casablanca
This is one of the best Elvis movies. The direction, sets, acting and songs are all great. It actually does have a plot and great setting in New Orleans. The last movie Elvis made in the 1950's, and the music is great with fusion of Rock, Jazz and well Elvis. The movie also sadly displays Elvis' great talent and his potential to be a great actor, which unfortunately after this movie was never developed.
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