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King Creole (1958)

Director: Michael Curtiz

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From Time Out Film Guide

Curtiz's intelligent, austere, film noir-ish direction provides the perfect antidote to the occasional excesses of a script based on a Harold Robbins novel (A Stone for Danny Fisher), and an ideal complement to Presley's performance as a street hustler who forges himself a magnetic rebel image through his music. The sequence in which he sings 'If you're looking for trouble' in a bus-boy's uniform in response to gangster Walter Matthau's dare is prime stuff.

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Cast & crew

Director: Michael Curtiz

Producer: Hal B Wallis

Cast: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Walter Matthau, Liliane Montevecchi, Vic Morrow, Paul Stewart full cast

Genre(s): Musicals

Duration: 116 mins


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