King Creole

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Summary: great movie
Review: king creole is elvis' best movie.it was filmed near me and my grandfather was the stuntman for the dummy when he jumped in the water to wrestle maxie.

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Summary: A lot better than I thought it would be
Review: King Creole was the first Elvis movie that I saw and I found out it was a good movie. Unlike many singers who try out their ability at acting, Elvis is actually a pretty good actor. Before watching King Creole, I never watched any of Elvis's movies because I thought that they would all be musicals and just be a bunch of people singing and acting crazy. But after watching King Creole I found out I was wrong. It was a good drama movie and now I understand why Elvis was in so many movies, not because he was a popular singer but he could also be a great actor. Walter Matthau and the rest of the supporting actors and actresses also did a good job.

It's about how Elvis became a singer at a local club and gaining fame for his ability while trying to stay away from a group of punks who threatened him if he didn't cooperate. It's an all around great movie and I recommend it to anyone. Now I'll probably give a lot more Elvis movies a chance after seeing King Creole.

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Summary: Excellent movie with a number of fine performances
Review: One of Elvis' first movies, before he became a parody of himself. Excellent performance by him, and other stars (including Walter Matthau) in the movie. Though Elvis performs songs on stage in the "King Creole" club in New Orleans, the movie emphasizes the story, not the songs. Excellent

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Summary: Take A Day Out of Your Life
Review: The BEST Elvis movie which allows Elvis to show his true ability to act. The hospital scene is an example as Elvis is moving. Great lines from all the actors thru out the movie. Well written and directed. Film in New Orleans some of the background is still easy to find today.
Classic songs, timeless love, great story and it is good for the whole family. They sure don't make em' like this anymore.

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Summary: Elvis at his best!!!
Review: The only valid musical drama ever done by Presley. This is Presley's best movie ever. Set in New Orleans, Presley plays a "kid" with a large chip on his shoulder who sings when he must and fights just as good. Good material for any Presley fan.

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Summary: Not just a great Elvis movie by any means
Review: This is a great movie, it just so happens that Elvis Presley is the leading man, and it just so happens that Elvis Presley turned this movie into a masterpiece. The other reviewers here have it right about the usual perception of Elvis' movies. To the doubters, I suggest you find Elvis' own words about his movie career if you think he was under any illusion about his later works. "The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one..." he would later say, among much worse things that I couldn't print here.
Elvis ACTS in this movie. Elvis brings out emotion, angst...an intangible quality also. He is intriguing, one wants to figure him out and help him. The movie engages you to be there for this Danny Fisher guy. He seems like a nice enough kid, he's just getting mixed up with some bad seeds. Also, shot in magnificently beautiful, well-rendered black and white - it's very artistic in it's depiction.
As far as the plot goes, there is enough about that printed already. If you want to see Elvis act, than this is your movie. Also recommend Loving You, Jailhouse Rock, and the half-forgotten diamond 'Flaming Star'.
Elvis could act when he 'wanted' to. I sort of admire him for that, as I am also the kind of person who can't put 100% into something I don't believe in. Elvis believed in this picture, believe in it too. Buy it and I promise you won't be sorry, and you'll watch many times.

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Summary: King Creole is a Royal Treat
Review: This is absolutely the best movie ever done by Elvis. After watching this film, you will realize the amount of talent that was wasted on such cookie cutter films as Clambake, Girls, Girls, Girls, Kid Gallahad, etc. Elvis demonstrates his theatrical prowess as a troubled youngster who gets caught up in the world of crime as a means to pull his family out of poverty. Walter Matthau gives an outstanding performance as a mob boss, quite an unusual role for Matthau, but he really pulls it off. When Matthau was asked about Elvis' performance in King Creole, he said, "He was an instinctive actor...he was intelligent enough to understand what a character was and how to play the character simply by being himself." It's also interesting to note that Carolyn Jones, Morticia Adams from the TV show the Adams family, plays a dark seductress caught up in Matthau's world of crime in the Big Easy. The soundtrack and great perfomance by Presley make this his best film hands down.

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Summary: Reel Elvis
Review: This is more like it. A great movie, well directed and acted by all concerned.

Elvis is fantasic. He looks great, looks enthused and is enjoying working with a great cast and crew. This is just the type of movie he should have been doing but, as is known, went on to make the likes of Girls, Girls, Girls and, God help us, Speedway.

The songs are good, the story is good, it looks like money was spent on it. What a pity his stint in the Army more or less ruined his movie career. This is highly recommended along with Flaming Star and Wild in the Country.

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Summary: Great acting for Elvis!
Review: This is my favortie movie of Elvis' because he always wanted to be a serious actor and this was probably the closest he ever got. The role was originally planned for James Dean. Most of his movies include the beach and a bunch of girls, but this one has real emotions and real intensity! If only he had been allowed to explore acting a little more seriously after this one...what potential!
Laura

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Summary: I'd rather watch 3000 Miles To Graceland than this
Review: This must have been Elvis Presley's worst movie. And when Mr. Presley was starting or doing this film, the army decided to draft him and Elvis Presley requested a 60 day brek to finish this movie, or it would have cost the studio a lot of money, if he had to leave the movie to go to the army. And Elvis Presley is cast as a high school student.

As the movie opens, Danny Fisher (Elvis Presley) is getting ready for what he thinks is his last day of school. And manges to sing his high school song for a gangster and recures his boss's (Walter Matthau) girl from the gangster. Her name is Ronnie (the late Carolyn Jones). And at school, he gets into a fight that sends to him to the princple's office, where his teacher (Helene Hatch in an uncredited role) decides that Mr. Fisher will not graute the following day. And so Danny, decides to not return to school for another school year.But when his father (Dean Jagger) finds out, he tells Danny to leave work to him, and Danny go to school. I giving it 1 star because of problems that I'm having with the film. Could somebody in real life decide to have a student, not to gruade? I must confess, I don't know.