Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Elvis Presley"

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Loving You *** (1957, Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Dolores Hart) – Classic Movie Review 2161

Co-writer/director Hal Kanter’s 1957 vehicle for Elvis Presley finds him starring as young hillbilly singer Deke Rivers, who’s changed his name from Jimmy Tompkins. He becomes a teenage sensation after he is hired to boost […]

Feb, 09

Flaming Star **** (1960, Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, John McIntire, Dolores Del Rio) – Classic Movie Review 1359

Director Don Siegel’s effective 1960 widescreen, colour Western stars an impressive Elvis Presley in a non-musical role. When a neighbouring family is massacred, Pacer Burton (Presley), offspring of white father Sam Burton (John McIntire) and […]

Jun, 26

Love Me Tender **** (1956, Elvis Presley, Richard Egan, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 1357

Elvis Presley makes his historic first movie appearance in director Robert D Webb’s interesting if routine 1956 American Civil War Western with musical numbers about four feuding Southern brothers, all of whom love the sultry […]

Jun, 26

G I Blues **** (1960, Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse, Robert Ivers, James Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 1360

Director Norman Taurog’s 1960 musical G I Blues is an effective tailor-made show for Elvis Presley, then just back in movies after service in the US Army as the most publicised American soldier since General […]

Jun, 26

Jailhouse Rock **** (1957, Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy) – Classic Movie Review 1,356

Elvis Presley stars as a self-centred but good-hearted bad boy called Vince Everett, the epitome of troubled youth, in the 1957 teen musical film Jailhouse Rock. It caused a scandal because Elvis plays a bad […]

Jun, 25

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