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King Creole is a 1958 American musical teen drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins. Produced by Hal B. Wallis, the film stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Liliane Montevecchi and Paul Stewart, and it follows a 19-year-old (Presley) who gets mixed up with crooks and involved with two women.
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Source This was first and foremost a film in the service of Elvis, then an emerging figure in the singing world with only three films to his credit. Based on Harold Robbins' novel Danny Fisher's Tombstone (1952), the boxer was replaced by a singer and his adventures were toned down as much as possible. Elvis is a troubled young man who is pressured and pursued by gangster Walter Matthau as he is torn between…More
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