Story Line
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.
“A STORY PULSING WITH THE HEARTBEAT OF TODAY'S YOUTH!”
Top Cast
Elvis Presley
Danny Fisher
Carolyn Jones
Ronnie
Walter Matthau
Maxie Fields
Dolores Hart
Nellie
Dean Jagger
Mr. Fisher
Liliane Montevecchi
Forty Nina
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Rating
6.4/ 10
Release Date
1958-07-02
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
DramaMusicCrime
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User Reviews (4)
John Chard
8/10
•9/5/2019Elvis 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...
Wuchak
5/10
•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 ...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•6/29/2022Holyrood 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 jo...
moard
No rating•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.