King Creole
by Michael Curtiz
Our Price: $9.98
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $4.78 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Carolyn Jones, Dean Jagger, Dolores Hart, Elvis Presley, Walter MatthauDirector: Michael Curtiz
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Producer: Paul Nathan
Writer: Harold Robbins
Writer: Herbert Baker
Writer: Michael V. Gazzo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-02
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of King Creole
Movie Review: An Elvis Fan
Summary: 4 Stars
This is my favorite Elvis movie. This movie shows the potential of greatness that could have been. If all of Elvis' material had been written this well, and if he'd been directed this well through out his career...well, it's already been said that Elvis could have been as good as James Dean. Seeing this film makes you believe that. You can find that same potential in "Jailhouse Rock", "Flaming Star" (except for that scene where he sings, how out of place and stupid was that?) and "Wild in the Country" and a snippet or two in "Change of Habit" and, surprisingly, "Viva Las Vegas". This was the one film of his where the director seemed to actually take him seriously and the music is high caliber all the way through without the dopey juice jazz that made up the last 20 of his films. I rewind and rewind "Trouble" to see the way he lets his music take him and us to that fun place called WOW!!! Even people who aren't Elvis fans will like this movie. My sister, who could never understand my enthusiasm for Elvis, finally agreed to watch King Creole with me and there after became a fan of his as well. Between this movie and the "68 Special", you will have the Elvis that was worth watching and the Elvis that captures hearts still today.
Summary of King Creole
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/21/2007Before his handlers convinced him to settle for the safety of a screen franchise, the young Elvis Presley harbored riskier dreams as an actor, not just a star. This 1958 drama, his fourth feature outing, hints at the underlying seriousness of that goal. Presley plays Danny Fisher, a New Orleans teenager struggling to graduate from high school while working in a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family. He's also characterized as a troubled youth with a dangerous temper and feelings of shame and resentment toward his meek, unemployed father (Dean Jagger). When Danny's gift for singing provides him with a potential career break (and the requisite excuse for Elvis's production numbers), his involvement with a ruthless gangster (Walter Matthau) and his sultry, alcoholic moll (Carolyn Jones) soon threatens both his future and his family.
That story line, with Danny torn between a budding romance with a good waitress (Dolores Hart) and the bad moll, Ronnie (Jones), proves as effective as it is predictable, hardly surprising given its source in an early Harold Robbins bestseller. But King Creole also boasts an impressive production pedigree (including the team behind no less a classic than Casablanca, producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz), and the supporting cast helps elicit one of Presley's most emotional performances. Jones in particular rises above her role's inherent clich?s, her self-loathing and sexuality both palpable. Presley, still a few years away from the more sanitized image that would be integral to those franchise features, is young enough to be a credible teen, but more crucially he makes his rage and yearning largely convincing.
Ironically, the dramatic sparks prove all the more welcome in light of the largely forgettable music, which variously plunders Chicago blues ("Trouble," a knock-off of "Hoochie Coochie Man") and unconvincingly crosses Presley's Memphis rock with Crescent City jazz ("Dixieland Rock"), all to far less effect than Presley's two preceding movies, Jailhouse Rock and Loving You. --Sam Sutherland
Action & Adventure DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in My fave Elvis movies. Yes, Elvis movies.
Loving YouRelease date: 2003-02-25; DVD
Best price: $23.79
Jailhouse Rock (Deluxe Edition)PRESLEY,ELVIS; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $11.20
Price in other shops:
Love Me TenderTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2006-02-28; DVD
Best price: $15.49
Price in other shops:
RoustaboutParamount; Release date: 2000-05-02; DVD
Best price: $6.17
Price in other shops:
Kid GalahadRelease date: 2005-12-06; DVD
Best price: $6.87
Price in other shops:
King CreoleParamount; Release date: 2000-05-02; DVD
Best price: $6.18
Price in other shops:
Fun in AcapulcoParamount; Release date: 2003-01-07; DVD
Best price: $6.23
Price in other shops:
Girls Girls Girls (1962)Paramount; Release date: 2003-01-07; DVD
Best price: $3.85
Price in other shops:
Viva Las Vegas (Deluxe Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $8.97
Price in other shops:
Elvis '56 - In the BeginningWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-09-26; DVD
Best price: $2.90
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Girls Girls Girls (1962)Paramount; Release date: 2003-01-07; DVD
Best price: $2.99
Price in other shops:
Fun in AcapulcoParamount; Release date: 2003-01-07; DVD
Best price: $6.06
Price in other shops:
Love Me TenderTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2006-02-28; DVD
Best price: $10.98
Price in other shops:
Change of HabitUniversal; Release date: 2002-07-30; DVD
Best price: $4.31
Price in other shops:
Wild in the CountryTwentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2002-08-13; DVD
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops:
Jailhouse RockDVD
G.I. Blues (Widescreen)PRESLEY,ELVIS; Release date: 2000-05-02; DVD
Best price: $2.96
Price in other shops:
RoustaboutParamount; Release date: 2000-05-02; DVD
Best price: $6.11
Price in other shops:
Flaming StarRelease date: 2002-08-13; DVD
Best price: $4.27
Price in other shops:
Blue HawaiiPRESLEY,ELVIS; Release date: 2000-05-02; DVD
Best price: $4.88
Price in other shops: