Jailhouse Rock

Name: Jailhouse Rock
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music, Musical
Released: November 8, 1957
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Anne Neyland, Dean Jones, Dorothy Abbott, Elvis Presley, Jennifer Holden

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: November 8, 1957 | TV-PG

Starring: Anne Neyland, Dean Jones, Dorothy Abbott, Elvis Presley, Jennifer Holden, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Norm Johnson, Peter Adams, Vaughn Taylor

Summary: After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

Director: Richard Thorpe

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Music, Musical

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 96 min

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Steve Simels

If you’re looking for cool, here’s Elvis Presley at his absolutely arctic. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Elvis' third movie is surely his best. He plays a guy vaguely like himself, who hits it big after learning to play music while in prison. Not only does this film have some of the best tunes in an Elvis movie, the choreography is great too. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Luckily, the attitude, the aggression, and the sex were let out in a burst of fire and they got it all on film. Read full review

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The production carries a contrived plot but under Richard Thorpe's deft direction unfolds smoothly. Director has been wise enough to allow Elvis Presley (in his third starrer) his own style, and build around him. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Elvis made a few better films (including Peter Tewksbury’s The Trouble With Girls and Don Siegel’s Flaming Star), but none that drew so well on the bad-boy side of his personality. Read full review

The Independent Staff (Not Credited)

Elvis's best film, in which he quite convincingly plays an unsavoury character sent to jail for killing a man in a bar brawl, but is reformed after he's introduced to the music business by his country-singing cellmate and becomes a big star. [18 Oct 2008, p.48]

Pauline Kael

Richard Thorpe directed this package, shrewdly designed to give satisfaction to the new raunchy rock generation. The story ends happily, and the movie made millions, though Presley never begins to suggest the vitality that he showed in documentary footage.

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codyz

Sep 9, 2023

Movie is alot better than I remember. Elvis still plays a super jerk, but his compelling rise from ex-con, to singing and movie stardom, makes this watchable. His constant rude direspect of those who helped him on the way up, may put off alot of viewers. But top notch musical numbers,Movie is alot better than I remember. Elvis still plays a super jerk, but his compelling rise from ex-con, to singing and movie stardom, makes this watchable. His constant rude direspect of those who helped him on the way up, may put off alot of viewers. But top notch musical numbers, capped by the title tune, are very entertaining. So much so, that despite his major character faults, we still root for him.… Expand

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