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King Creole

  PG Closed Captioning

Michael Curtiz

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Plot Summary

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 the best filmed examples of the untamed, pre-army Elvis Presley. The picture was adapted from Harold Robbins' novel A Stone for Danny Fisher.

Customer Reviews

ElVIS!!!! XD

King Creole is the best movie elvis has ever acted in...
Love every bit of this movie and the actor. Elvis will always be in
our hearts...

Hands down, the King's best movie

I'm an uber-Elvis fan: his music, life, everything. So I had to sit through all of his 31 movies to see for myself what kind of an actor he was - good or bad? King Creole was one of the first I saw. Considering my low expectations, the King of RnR really was a competent thespian. Not quite the James Dean he admired, but you can definitely see a spark of something like it here: a huge pity Col. Parker ravaged, then killed it, with so many silly '60's musicals.

Top ten Elvis films categorized

1. Horribly bad (Stay Away Joe, Kissin' Cousins... UGH!!!)
2. Meh-bad (Harum Scarum, Clambake)
3. Watchable fluff (Blue Hawaii, Hawaii Paradise Style, Fun in Acapulco, Tickle Me, Speedway, Frankie & Johnny, Easy Come Easy Go, Double Trouble)
4. Enjoyable fluff (Viva Las Vegas, Girl Happy, Girls Girls Girls, Spinout, It Happened At The World's Fair, Roustabout)
5. Good fluff (G. I. Blues, Kid Galahad)
6. Really, really good non-fluff (Follow That Dream)
7. Unconventional, unusual, not-sure-what-to-rate-it (The Trouble with Girls, Live A Little Love A Little, Charro)
8. Biographically good (Loving You)
9. Seriously good (Flaming Star, Jailhouse Rock, Love Me Tender, Wild in the Country, Change of Habit)
10. BEST MOVIE (King Creole)

king creol

king creole is number 1 on his top three best movie list[well to me]. it is filled with drama which i love, also there is love in it but the girl he loves im it think is kind of well i'm just goimg to say she's not that pretty. but any way his best performance in a film. and just some info
on him elvis loved james dean acting and just could talk about his acting for hours. so i just want to say that i love elvis his music and his films and how he makes us just love him.