Also Known As: Le rock du bagne
Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / Avon Productions (II)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Plot: Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out. However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he decides to form his own label, and soon becomes an overnight sensation. But when he becomes a superstar, will his desire for fame and money cause him to forget the people who got him there?
Cast and Character: Elvis Presley as Vince Everett / Judy Tyler as Peggy Van Alden / Mickey Shaughnessy as Hunk Houghton / Vaughn Taylor as Mr. Shores / Jennifer Holden as Sherry Wilson / Dean Jones as Teddy Talbot / Anne Neyland as Laury Jackson
Trailer: n/A
Creators: n/A
Description: After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
Directors: Richard Thorpe
Genres: Drama / Music / Musical
Location: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
MPAA: Not Rated
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0050556.jpg
Rating: 6.3
Release Date: 8 November 1957 (USA)
Runtime: 96 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: M-G-M Presents Elvis Presley - Rebel of Song
Title: Jailhouse Rock
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050556/
Votes: 4,257
Writers: Guy Trosper / Nedrick Young
Year: 1957
Jailhouse Rock got rated 6.3.
About the movie: Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out. However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he decides to form his own label, and soon becomes an overnight sensation. But when he becomes a superstar, will his desire for fame and money cause him to forget the people who got him there?
It's a Gift got rated 7.3.
About the movie: The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife ("That's 'Bee-soh-nay'" and "I have no maid you know"). To get some sleep he goes out on the porch where he is tormented by a little boy from the floor above (Baby Dunk) and an insurance salesman down below ("LaFong. Capital L, small a..."). He uses an inheritance to buy an orange ranch through the mail, then drives off with his family for California. The orange grove consists of a withered tree, the ranch house is but a shack, and the car falls to pieces. But a racetrack operator wants the land, so all ends happily.
In Cold Blood got rated 8.0.
About the movie: Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmer's home only to find that there is nearly no money at the home and murder the entire family to avoid identification. The first part of the film details the search for them, the second, their trial and execution. Taken from the actual events chronicled by Truman Capote in his book.
How Green Was My Valley got rated 7.8.
About the movie: Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Seen through the eyes of the family's youngest, Huw, we learn of the family's trials and tribulations. Family patriarch Gwyllim and his older sons work in the mines, dangerous and unhealthy as it is. Gwyllim has greater hopes for younger son how to honor his hard working parents. Huw who has his own ideas on how to honor his father. Daughter Angharad is the most beautiful girl in the valley and is very much in love with Mr. Gruffydd who isn't sure he can provide her the life she deserves. Times are hard and good men find themselves out of work and exploited by unseen mine owners.
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