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King Creole

1958, Movie, NR, 116 mins

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KING CREOLE features Elvis Presley's best film performance, a result perhaps of the helming of Michael Curtiz--who had also directed Cagney, Bogart, Garfield, and Flynn and who will always be revered for CASABLANCA--or of the script by Herbert Baker and Michael Gazzo, which was based on a novel written by Harold Robbins before he became a pop fiction cottage industry. Whatever the reason, the film will be remembered for the many facets of Elvis that emerged in his portrayal ... read more leave a comment
Maybe the best opening ever to an Elvis movie, Elvis (as Danny Fisher) sings "Crawfish" by Fred Wise and Ben Weisman from a French Quarter balcony with support from Kitty White in King Creole, 1958.
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Posted: 12/30/2008
Elvis (as Danny Fisher) provides diversion performing "Lover Doll" by Sid Wayne and Abner Silver while his pals rob a dime-store and Danny meets the dreamy Nellie (Dolores Hart) in King Creole, 1958.
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Posted: 12/5/2008
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Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is forced to drop out of school to help support his ineffective father (Dean Jagger). Drawn to trouble like a magnet, Danny is saved from a jail term by New Orleans saloon-keeper Charlie Le Grand (Paul Stewart), who gives the boy a job as a singer. It isn't long, however, before local gang boss Maxie Fields (Walter Matthau), a shadowy figure from Danny's criminal past, puts the muscle on the boy, insisting that Danny sing at his establishment. To lure Danny to his side of the fence, Maxie relies upon the seductive charms of his gun moll Ronnie (Carolyn Jones), while Danny's true love Nellie (Dolores Hart) suffers on the sidelines. In addition to the expected musical numbers (which are cleverly integrated into the storyline), the film's highlight is a brief exchange of fisticuffs between Elvis and Walter Matthau. Together with Jailhouse Rock, King Creole is one of t
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Length: 01:55:38
Posted: 12/16/2009
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Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is forced to drop out of school to help support his ineffective father (Dean Jagger). Drawn to trouble like a magnet, Danny is saved from a jail term by New Orleans salloonkeeper Charlie Le Grand (Paul Stewart), who gives the boy a job as a singer. It isn't long, however, before local gang boss Maxie Fields (Walter Matthau), a shadowy figure from Danny's criminal past, puts the muscle on the boy, insisting that Danny sing at his establishment. To lure Danny to his side of the fence, Maxie relies upon the seductive charms of his gun moll Ronnie (Carolyn Jones), while Danny's true love Nellie (Dolores Hart) suffers on the sidelines. In addition to the expected musical numbers (which are cleverly integrated into the storyline), the film's highlight is a brief exchange of fisticuffs between Elvis and Walter Matthau. Together with Jailhouse Rock, King Creole is one of t
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Length: 01:56:00
Posted: 12/1/2009
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Year: 1958
Rated NR

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Cast
Elvis Presley: Danny Fisher
Carolyn Jones: Ronnie
Dolores Hart: Nellie
Dean Jagger: Mr. Fisher
Liliane Montevecchi: "Forty" Nina
Walter Matthau: Maxie Fields

 

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