King Creole

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King Creole (1958)

16 07/02/1958 (US) Drama, Music, Crime 1h 56m

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A STORY PULSING WITH THE HEARTBEAT OF TODAY'S YOUTH!

Overview

Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.

Michael Curtiz

Director
Harold Robbins

Novel
Herbert Baker

Screenplay
Michael V. Gazzo

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Elvis Presley

Danny Fisher
Carolyn Jones

Ronnie
Walter Matthau

Maxie Fields
Dolores Hart

Nellie
Dean Jagger

Mr. Fisher
Liliane Montevecchi

Forty Nina
Vic Morrow

Shark
Paul Stewart

Charlie LeGrand
Jan Shepard

Mimi Fisher
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A review by John Chard

80%

Written by John Chard on September 5, 2019

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.

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