{"id":38961,"date":"2017-07-24T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=38961"},"modified":"2020-12-18T20:59:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T03:59:21","slug":"jailhouse-rock-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=38961","title":{"rendered":"Jailhouse Rock (1957)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;That ain&#8217;t tactics, honey &#8212; it&#8217;s just the beast in me!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Poster-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Poster-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Poster-83x128.jpg 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Poster.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter accidentally killing a man in a barfight, a construction worker (Elvis Presley) is sent to jail, where his cellmate (Mickey Shaughnessy) &#8212; a former country-and-western star &#8212; teaches him to play the guitar and offers him a chance to perform. Upon his release, Vince (Presley) connects with a beautiful juke box representative (Judy Tyler) and soon becomes a rising star &#8212; but will thirst for fame and money corrupt his humble beginnings?\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aspiring Stars<\/li>\n<li>Elvis Presley Films<\/li>\n<li>Ex-Cons<\/li>\n<li>Musicals<\/li>\n<li>Prisoners<\/li>\n<li>Rock \u2018n Roll<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary argues that while Elvis Presley&#8217;s third film is &#8220;not on the high level of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39003\"><em>Flaming Star<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=38913\"><em>King Creole<\/em><\/a>&#8220;, it was &#8220;one of his biggest commercial successes&#8221; and &#8220;is still quite enjoyable&#8221;. He notes that &#8220;young Elvis is handsome and charismatic playing the troubled, misunderstood, quick-fisted character that best suited him in his movie career&#8221;; that &#8220;his singing is strong and smooth&#8221;; and &#8220;the Leiber-Stoller numbers&#8230; are first-rate&#8221;, with &#8220;the wildly choreographed &#8216;Jailhouse Rock&#8217; production number&#8221; a true &#8220;classic&#8221;. He further adds that the film &#8220;benefits from the sweet presence of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judy_Tyler\">Judy Tyler, an actress who died young but is remembered fondly<\/a>.&#8221; Peary&#8217;s assessment is fair but overly generous. The major themes of the storyline &#8212; show business is brutal, fame easily corrupts &#8212; aren&#8217;t unique or compelling, and it&#8217;s difficult to care too much about Presley&#8217;s &#8220;backwoods lad who trusts no one and carries a chip on his shoulder&#8221; (I don&#8217;t find him particularly charismatic). This flick will, of course, be of major interest to Presley fans &#8212; but all-purpose film fanatics can simply watch the title number on YouTube. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fine musical numbers<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Still.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"831\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Still.png 831w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Still-128x53.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Still-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Jailhouse-Rock-Still-768x319.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though the &#8220;Jailhouse Rock&#8221; number is certainly worth watching on its own. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050556\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/238\/jailhouse-rock#articles-reviews?articleId=64076\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=7139&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/film\/jailhouse-rock\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That ain&#8217;t tactics, honey &#8212; it&#8217;s just the beast in me!&#8221; Synopsis: After accidentally killing a man in a barfight, a construction worker (Elvis Presley) is sent to jail, where his cellmate (Mickey Shaughnessy) &#8212; a former country-and-western star &#8212; teaches him to play the guitar and offers him a chance to perform. Upon his release, Vince (Presley) connects with a beautiful juke box representative (Judy Tyler) and soon becomes a rising star &#8212; but will thirst for fame and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=38961\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38961"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58438,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38961\/revisions\/58438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}