The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

It might be one of the King's better movies, maybe even best as some would declare, but he sure comes across as a rude, inconsiderate rebel throughout most of the story. Especially when he's dealing with record producer Peggy Van Alden (Judy Tyler). Today if he said to a woman in a picture that she was 'pretty well stacked' he might get a letter from the NOW folks. Just goes to show you how times have changed.But you can't take away the man's talent. Presley's charismatic, lilting voice comes through on ballads like 'One More Day' and 'You're So Young and Beautiful', and when it comes to the title song, Elvis really belts it out in a well choreographed production number. Man, if you watch him closely as he gyrates his lower body, you have to wonder how he didn't hurt himself.What struck me about the Hunk Houghton (Mickey Shaughnessy) character was how much he might have been based on Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker in real life. When Hunk wrote up the jail house contract for Vince, he was looking for fifty percent of his earnings. I don't think the Colonel ever took that much, but most followers of Elvis know he didn't get a square deal, especially in the choice of movie treatments.You really have to wonder how far Elvis Presley could have taken it if he had the same success in movies as he had on stage. As for his success with women there's certainly no doubt, though I'm sure he never used the same line on Priscilla that he did here with Peggy - "You start the hammer to pounding in my skull". Even coming from The King it sounded goofy.

I suppose back in 1957 I would have given it maybe a 5 or 6 but now it just looks so .....tired, pathetic and ...... GAY. The song Jailhouse Rock is just appalling, and if you don,t agree with me calling it GAY, you just check out the lyrics. "Number forty-seven said to number three "You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see I sure would be delighted with your company Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me"I can tell you now that if I ever got banged up in a US prison the last words to come from my lips would be "You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see". I;d be well and truly banged up in more ways than one. No wonder Elvis walks funny in that song.

Elvis had the charm to make him one of the most popular American celebrities of all time. His music touched the lives of millions, he made girls go crazy, and made every man dream of being him. His time behind the camera is something we should clear our minds from. Elvis plays a bad boy released from jail who then starts singing like crazy in "Jailhouse Rock." Elvis really tanked at singing in this film. His raspy voice and overdone charm is painful to tolerate. The dancing is also weakly choreographed. It looks like Elvis was forced to dance against his original style. For some reason, director Richard Thorpe thought it would be cool to have him play a bad boy with a soft side to him. Obviously we get stuck with a love story that made me gag. The reason I saw this film was that at school we had to watch it in a film class. Out a hundreds of classic films to show the progress of movies throughout time, it ponders me how my teacher showed us this garbage. It's a quick film that we finished in two days, but it is dreadful to listen to every second. It's funny how just because someone is famous they get to be in big movies. Elvis had zero acting talent, but there's a strong chance hundreds of promising gentlemen tried out for this role and didn't get it due to not being famous enough. Elvis may have charmed us in music, but boy o boy is he a horrendous actor who chose worthless movies to star in.

JAILHOUSE ROCK was based on a story by Nedrick Young who the next year won the Oscar for best screenplay (The Defiant Ones (1958)) under the pseudonymous Nathan E. Douglas after being blacklisted.Elvis Aaron Presley (was born January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi) was an American singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is also sometimes referred to as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" or "The King." Rock and Roll, the phrase came from several sources, Bill Haley and the comets used it in 1954's "Rock Around the Clock," before that it was used in a 1948 rhythm-and-blues hit called "Good Rockin' Tonight." Before that, both rock and roll had sexual meanings in jazz and blues, as in "My Man Rocks Me with One Steady Roll," recorded by Trixie Smith in 1922. Elvis Presley began his career in 1953 as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an up-tempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing "black" and "white" sounds, made him popular—and controversial—as did his uninhibited stage and television performances. He recorded songs in the rock and roll genre, with tracks like "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" later embodying the style. Presley had a versatile voice and had unusually wide success encompassing other genres, including gospel, blues, country, ballads and pop. To date, he has been inducted into four music halls of fame.In the 1960s, Presley made the majority of his 31 movies, most of which were poorly reviewed but financially successful musicals. In 1968, he returned to live music in a television special, and performed across the U.S., notably in Las Vegas. In 1973, Presley staged the first global live concert via satellite (Aloha from Hawaii), reaching at least one billion viewers live and an additional 500 million on delay.Throughout his career, he set records for concert attendance, television ratings and recordings sales. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in the history of music. Health problems, drug addiction and other factors led to his death at age 42.JAILHOUSE ROCK was Elvis's third movie, after LOVE ME TENDER (1956), LOVING YOU (1957) then JAILHOUSE ROCK (1957) and KING CREOLE (1958) then the army and G.I. BLUES (1960). Jailhouse Rock was one of his best films and I recommend it.