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.| Status: | Released (1958-07-02) |
|---|---|
| Screen: | Herbert Baker, Michael V. Gazzo, Harold Robbins |
| Productions: | Paramount Pictures, Hal Wallis Productions |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 21457: Elvis Presley - Danny Fisher
- 19109: Carolyn Jones - Ronnie
- 6837: Walter Matthau - Maxie Fields
- 83391: Dolores Hart - Nellie
- 29313: Dean Jagger - Mr. Fisher
- 83809: Liliane Montevecchi - Forty Nina
- 83810: Vic Morrow - Shark
Crews
- 4109: Michael Curtiz - Director - Directing
- 127351: Herbert Baker - Screenplay - Writing
- 570494: Harold Robbins - Novel - Writing
- 4308: Russell Harlan - Director of Photography - Camera
- 3172: Michael V. Gazzo - Screenplay - Writing
- 18595: Warren Low - Editor - Editing
- 1351874: Tom Parker - Technical Advisor - Crew
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
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, D ....
Continue reading ->Wuchak
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_**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 whil ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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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 boyis ....
Continue reading ->moard
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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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