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Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
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“Is Elvis Presley the best thing in King Creole?”
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20227/10
Holyrood certainly didn't stint on the resources it put into this outing for Elvis. Michael Curtis took the helm and Harold Robbins provided the original novel as we follow the escapades of "Danny Fisher". He is a skint college flunkey who takes a job in the eponymous club. His boyish charms and his moves delight the audience, and they also attract the mischievous temptress "Ronnie" (Carolyn Jones) - who just happens to be the mistress of the club's dodgy owner "Maxie" (Walter Matthau). Dangers looms, but when he realises that there is money to be made with his crooning - for the right people - he finds himself immersed more and more on the wrong side of the tracks. Luckily for him, there is hope of redemption in the form of "Nellie" (Dolores Hart). She is a good natured girl who tries to get "Danny" to see past his short term life and look to a more honest, positive future. Will his new friends allows either of them that luxury? Easily the best film Presley ever made, in my book. Curtis creates a wonderfully grim and gritty environment for this story of love, lust, greed and ambition to play out. The star himself was a bit old for his role, but still he looks every inch the waywar
Read the whole review on TMDB - Wuchakon TMDB · Nov 20205/10
_**Elvis living on Bourbon St. in New Orleans**_ In New Orleans, Danny Fisher (Presley) fails to graduate high school for the second time and so uses his singing talents at nightclubs to provide for his destitute father and sister. Walter Matthau plays a shady nightclub baron while Carolyn Jones plays his floozy. “King Creole” (1958) mixes the Elvis formula with B&W film noir. Despite the name, don’t expect any bayous; the story takes place entirely in and around the Bourbon St. district of New Orleans. Touted as one of the best Presley flicks because it’s a relatively dark & serious Big Easy drama meshed with a few of his musical performances, it’s not as compelling or believable as Elvis’ better dramas, like "Kid Galahad" (1962) or “Roustabout” (1964) nor as entertaining as his more farcical movies, like “Viva Las Vegas" (1964). The story, which came from a book by Harold Robbins, feels contrived. You have rival club owners (one good/one bad, of course) with a “sing for me or else” element and an eye-rolling subplot involving Danny’s father, a pharmacy, back alley toughs and black mail. The B&W photography doesn’t help. Hottie Liliane Montevecchi as the banana showgirl, Forty Nin
Read the whole review on TMDB - John Chardon TMDB · Sep 20198/10
Elvis Noir as Rock N Roll comes to the King Creole. King Creole is directed by Michael Curtiz and adapted to screenplay by Herbert Baker and Michael V. Gazzo from the novel A Stone for Danny Fisher written by Harold Robbins. It stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Paul Stewart and Jan Shepard. Music is scored by Walter Scharf and cinematography by Russell Harlan. Plot finds Presley as Danny Fisher, a high school student struggling at school who falls in with the wrong crowd just as family matters of the heart start to take a hold. He said anybody that disagreed with you got a punch in the mouth. Is that what I brought you up to do, to fight? The last film Presley made before going off to do his service in the army, King Creole is his best film. It's one of only a small handful that showed the star actually had some acting ability, here he gets a top director to work under and a very tidy cast put along side him for him to respond too. Presley immediately warmed to Curtiz (Casablanca/Mildred Pierce), wilfully doing as he was told by the wily old director, rewarding the film fan with a performance of some merit. Presley would ofte
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Cast
- Elvis PresleyDanny Fisher
- Carolyn JonesRonnie
- Walter MatthauMaxie Fields
- Dolores HartNellie
- Dean JaggerMr. Fisher
- Liliane MontevecchiForty Nina
- Vic MorrowShark
- Paul StewartCharlie LeGrand
- Jan ShepardMimi Fisher
- Brian G. HuttonSal (as Brian Hutton)
Crew
- Michael CurtizDirector
- Herbert BakerScreenplay
- Michael V. GazzoScreenplay
- Harold RobbinsNovel
- Russell HarlanDirector of Photography
- Walter ScharfOriginal Music Composer
- Warren LowEditor
- Joseph H. HazenProducer
- Hal B. WallisProducer
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