King Creole

King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau. Produced by Hal B. Wallis and based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins, the film is about a nineteenyearold who gets mixed up with crooks and involved with two women.

Nineteenyearold high school student Danny Fisher Elvis works before and after school to support his surviving family his father Dean Jagger and sister Mimi Jan Shepard. After Dannys mother died, his grieving father lost his job as a pharmacist, and moved his impoverished family to the French Quarter in New Orleans.At work one morning, Danny rescues Ronnie Jones from her abusive date. After a taxi ride to Dannys high school, Ronnie kisses him. Danny responds to witnessing schoolmates teasing by kissing Ronnie back and then punching one of them in the face when he makes a teasing remark. Dannys reaction summons him to the principals office where Miss Pearson Helene Hatch, his teacher, tells Principal Evans Raymond Bailey that Danny will not graduate because of his poor attitude. Mr. Evans is sympathetic, but powerless to help so Danny decides to drop out of school to find work, against the wishes of his father, who tries to convince Danny to stay in school. ........

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