Mein Leben ist der Rhythmus
Kurz vor seinem hart erkämpften Schulabschluss gerät Danny Fisher in Schwierigkeiten, die ihn das Diplom der Highschool kosten. Sein Vater verlangt von ihm, dass er auf der Schule bleibt, aber Danny träumt von einer Karriere als Sänger in einem Nachtclub. Um das Leben noch weiter zu komplizieren, lagt er sich auch noch mit dem lokalen Gangsterboss an und die verführerische Gangsterbraut hat noch viel gefährlichere Pläne für Dannys Zukunft.
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Alle auf TMDB ansehenElvis 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, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Paul Stewart and Jan Shepard. Music is scored by Walter Scharf and cinematogra…
_**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 plays a shady nightclub baron while Carolyn Jones plays his floozy. “King Creole” (1958) mixes the Elvis formula with B&W film noir. Despite the …
Holyrood 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 job in the eponymous club. His boyish charms and his moves delight the audience, and they also attract the mischievous temptress "Ronnie" (Carolyn Jones…
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