

King Creole
A STORY PULSING WITH THE HEARTBEAT OF TODAY'S YOUTH!
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.
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- Language
- English
- nightclub
- crime boss
- musical
- singer
- black and white
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical2 Jul 1958
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG28 Aug 1958
CanadaCA
- TheatricalPG2 Jul 1958
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical122 Jul 1958
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1221 Oct 1958
SwedenSE
- Theatrical72 Jul 1958
TürkiyeTR
- Theatrical16 Nov 1964
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King Creole was released on 2 July 1958.
Audience reviews
4- J8/10
John Chard
9/5/2019
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 Harla…
- W5/10
Wuchak
11/7/2020
_**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 plays his floozy. “King Creole” (1958) mixes the Elvis formula with B&W film noir. Despite the name, don’t expect a…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/29/2022
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 moves delight the audience, and they also attract the mischievous temptress "Ronnie" (Carolyn Jones) - who just happens…
- M
moard
11/19/2023
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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