King Creole
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Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Overview
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.
Reviews (4)
John Chard (Rated: 8)
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, Dea...
Wuchak (Rated: 5)
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 ...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
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...
moard (Not rated)
In this outing, Presley plays Danny Fisher, a kid from New Orleans. Danny is a troubled youth, and is hired by not one, but two nightclubs as a singer. This is Presley’s finest attempt at real acting.
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