King Creole
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 nineteen-year-old (Presley) who gets mixed up with crooks and involved with two women.
Plot
Nineteen-year-old high school student Danny Fisher works before and after school to support his father and sister Mimi. After Danny's mother died, his grieving father lost his job as a pharmacist and moved his impoverished family to the French Quarter in New Orleans.
More details
| author | Herbert Baker Michael V. Gazzo |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New Orleans |
| director | Michael Curtiz |
| editor | Warren Low |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | cry drive-in drive-in theater drug store first love five-and-dime french quarter gang member grieving father high school student hotel room impoverished family injured kill kiss morning mug night club principal sing snack bar tease the king |
| musicBy | Walter Scharf |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis |
| productionCompany | Hal Wallis Productions |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | New Orleans |
| theme | musical drama teen teen drama |