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King Creole (1958) is an Elvis Presley Michael Curtiz rock n roll noir juvenile tearaway love and crime street tough southern violent young love tale of parental and filial failure in the homes and streets and schools of 1950s America.
If there should be a place, a note on celluloid, where Elvis and film noir should meet, then King Creole will be that. It was always your favourite Elvis film and while it is good for an Elvis film, nay in fact a veritable Citizen Kane of Elvislry compared to most of the mush he filmed, and despite hosting Michael Curtiz in the master's chair, it is still not so great a movie. We may force a noir pairing with Jailhouse Rock (1957). The film that took youth culture to prison.
