The read
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
113 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael CurtizDirector
- Herbert BakerScreenplay
- Michael V. GazzoScreenplay
- Walter ScharfOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Elvis PresleyDanny Fisher
- Carolyn JonesRonnie
- Walter MatthauMaxie Fields
- Dolores HartNellie
- Dean JaggerMr. Fisher
- Liliane MontevecchiForty Nina
- Vic MorrowShark
- Paul StewartCharlie LeGrand
- Jan ShepardMimi Fisher
- Brian G. HuttonSal (as Brian Hutton)
- Jack GrinnageDummy
- Dick WinslowEddie Burton
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Themes
nightclubcrime bossmusicalsingerblack and white
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