Lot Essay
King Creole, Paramount, 1958, starred Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dean Jagger, Dolores Hart and Paul Stewart. It was Elvis' fourth film and he was blessed by a formidable supporting cast. Elvis ..always cited this movie as his favourite out of all that he made. [the film showed] Elvis moving towards serious acting...'King Creole' was the last great Presley film until the Las Vegas and live tour movies of the 1970s. (See Carr,(Roy) and Farren,(Mick): Elvis The Complete Illustrated Record, EEl Pie Publishing, London, 1982, pp.56-57)