kz917-1 Good music with a pretty good story. Worth a watch for any fan of the King!

Dominic LeRose Elvis had the charm to make him one of the most popular American celebrities of all time. His music touched the lives of millions, he made girls go crazy, and made every man dream of being him. His time behind the camera is something we should clear our minds from. Elvis plays a bad boy released from jail who then starts singing like crazy in "Jailhouse Rock." Elvis really tanked at singing in this film. His raspy voice and overdone charm is painful to tolerate. The dancing is also weakly choreographed. It looks like Elvis was forced to dance against his original style. For some reason, director Richard Thorpe thought it would be cool to have him play a bad boy with a soft side to him. Obviously we get stuck with a love story that made me gag. The reason I saw this film was that at school we had to watch it in a film class. Out a hundreds of classic films to show the progress of movies throughout time, it ponders me how my teacher showed us this garbage. It's a quick film that we finished in two days, but it is dreadful to listen to every second. It's funny how just because someone is famous they get to be in big movies. Elvis had zero acting talent, but there's a strong chance hundreds of promising gentlemen tried out for this role and didn't get it due to not being famous enough. Elvis may have charmed us in music, but boy o boy is he a horrendous actor who chose worthless movies to star in.

gullwing592003 It's generally regarded that "King Creole" is considered to be Elvis's best movie of all his films because of it's high production values & a very strong excellent cast & a great storyline. These first 4 pre-army films captured the significance & rebellion & threat of the rebel Elvis & what he represented & how he was seen by the youth & the establishment in the 1950's as a new Marlon Brando & James Dean."Jailhouse Rock" captures Elvis at his meanest & nastiest & most arrogant & conceited of his pre-army movies."King Creole's" Danny Fisher was tough & likable but "Jailhouse Rocks" Vince Everett is downright despicable. But it has low production values & a mediocre cast which weakens the film to a certain point. It was obviously a low budget B picture that could've been better if it had a bigger budget & better cast like his other 3 movies "Love Me Tender", "Loving You" & "King Creole".But it does make up for it with it's great songs & of course the exciting & spectacular "Jailhouse Rock" dance production sequence which was choreographed by Elvis himself & when he sings "Baby I Don't Care" is classic Elvis at his best."Jailhouse Rock" has a good story & Elvis does some good serious acting in this as well. His dramatic scenes are great & intense & this film packs a punch & it does impact you with different emotions from frustration, sympathy, anger, jealousy, resentment, revenge, happiness & humor to redemption. There is some classic Elvis lines like "Lady I don't know what the hell you're talking about" & "That ain't tactics honey it's just the beast in me". This movie came the closest to what Elvis was really like in real life & he was not the teddy bear everyone thought. Elvis really did get into a lot of fist fights by jealous boyfriends in 1956 & '57. In 1957 Elvis did stand in front of a judge in court for punching a gas station owner in the eye when the owner asked Elvis to clear out while he was signing autographs as he was drawing a huge crowd of fans. The judge threw the case out for not enough evidence to support the charge. Was it art imitating life or the other way around ?? Jailhouse Rock is an all time Elvis Presley classic !! A must see movie & one of Elvis's best !!

slapstck2000 I just down loaded the color version of this movie and well WOW!! I WILL admit though I knew about the goofs in the movie like guitarist Scotty Moore and the sunglasses behind Elvis as hes singing (Your so square baby I don't care) but in the color version your cant see Scotty almost at all in the long shots, but hey I was more intrigued with the color than the goofs, AND I also seen where someone is planning to remake Jailhouse Rock! wow! not sure it can or even should be done! I do think they probably should have made a sequel to the original, perhaps when Elvis was older like in the mid 70s show where he and Peggy had a daughter, and Vince was having trouble adapting to the music world sort of like Hunk had after he got out of prison! buut im an Elvis fan so hey! Michael Smith