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  1. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • 03/31/23. Richard Thorpe. Director. Elvis Presley. Vince Everett. Judy Tyler. Peggy Van Alden. Mickey Shaughnessy. Hunk Houghton. Vaughn Taylor. Mr. Shores. Dean Jones. Teddy...

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    • Elvis Presley
    • Richard Thorpe
    • Musical
  2. Jailhouse Rock is given a good MGM style production, worthy of anything you might have seen MGM give one of Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly's musicals. And the record of course is still selling good. Mickey Shaughnessy appeared in a lot of good films in the Fifties, but usually playing cheerful oafs.

  3. Jailhouse Rock Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. P.S. Harrison Harrison's Reports. Although he is far from a finished actor, Presley continues to show...

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  5. 7/10. Presley's best movie. Perhaps Presley's best movie. It casts him as a young hothead serving a jail sentence for manslaughter.Released from jail he makes it big in the music-business.The sudden success goes to his head and alienates his best friends.

    • Richard Thorpe
    • 100
    • 3 min
  6. Jailhouse Rock is still one of my favorite Elvis movies. Jailhouse Rock today is considered a classic early rock ’n’ roll film. It’s interesting, though, to go back to the fall of 1957 and see how some of the nation’s top film critics reviewed Elvis’ third movie when it first opened.

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  7. Jailhouse Rock is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor and Jennifer Holden. Adapted by Guy Trosper from a story written by Nedrick Young , the film tells the story of Vince Everett (Presley), a convict who learns the guitar while in prison and ...

  8. The story, about a rock star with a prison background, was tougher than some of the other Presley pictures, but the musical numbers especially were shot in the MGM tradition, which was totally wrong for rock. See all 12 reviews on Metacritic.com. See all external reviews for Jailhouse Rock.

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