I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

the audience applauded

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Elvis Presley was a hugely influential performer with one of the most distinctive singing voices of anybody. He embarked on a film career consisting of 33 films from 1956 to 1969, films that did well at the box-office but mostly panned critically (especially his later films) and while he was a highly charismatic performer he was never considered a great actor.'Roustabout' is not one of Elvis' better overall films, not being as good as the likes of 'King Creole', 'Flaming Star', 'Jailhouse Rock', 'Viva Las Vegas' and 'Loving You'. This said as far as his mid- 60s onwards efforts go, 'Roustabout' generally is one of his better faring ones.Very rarely were the script and story strong suits in Elvis' films, quite often being weak links even. 'Roustabout' is not an exception. The story is paper thin and formulaic, with neither the friction between Charlie and Joe or the romance between Charlie and Cathy ever igniting and structurally it's all too pat and obvious. The former due to too much immature silliness and not enough grit, which one kind of expected when you have the rebellious sort of character that Elvis played in the 50s in films that did have tension and grit, and the latter due to the chemistry not being there and Joan Freeman being somewhat bland.The songs generally are less than stellar and mostly very forgettable. A few do work, and they will be mentioned later, but most suffer from lacking sound mixing that give them a cheapness, sloppy lip-synching, fitting awkwardly and from being too short. "Carny Town" and "It's Carnival Time" especially apply here. The script has its fun and good-natured moments, as well as its tragic ones, but over-silliness and corn run all over it as well.However, 'Roustabout' is a good-looking film, it's beautifully shot with a great atmosphere and the rural scenery is colourful and evocative. A few of the songs are good, the title song and "Little Egypt" being knockouts. The tender "Big Love, Big Heartache", the acid "Poison Ivy League" and the energetic "One Track Shot" also stand out. The choreography has a good deal of energy, the carnival atmosphere is just magical and the Wall of Death scene hits hard.A good cast helps and 'Roustabout' has that (Freeman excepted), John Rich also directing more than capably. Elvis is not at his very best and has been in better shape, but there is still an easy-going charisma and vigour to his performance. Barbara Stanwyk provides compelling realism and effortless command to her role, while Sue Anne Langdon adds a good deal of lustre and Leif Eriksson relishes his unsympathetic character. Familiar faces such as Pat Buttram, Steve Brodie and Jack Albertson are fun to see, and the film also boasts short appearances from Racquel Welch, Richard Kiel, Teri Garr and Billy Barty.Overall, not great but decent likable fun. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Director John Rich's musical melodrama "Roustabout" qualifies as a standard-issue Elvis opus. Elvis and love interest Joan Freeman never generate sparks in their on-screen relationship and this shortage of chemistry isn't good for the action. When the leading man and the leading lady lack chemistry, the movie can do little to save itself from the doldrums. The most suspenseful thing in "Roustabout" occurs with Elvis mounts a motorcycle and rides in circles in a gigantic barrel. We don't even actually see Elvis riding inside the barrel in this Hall B. Wallis' production. We see him climb on the bike, but we don't see him ride the barrel. Elvis appears in a number of long shots where he straddles a bike, but a stunt man substitutes for him during a wreck that has the character smashing through a white wooden fence. Meanwhile, Elvis has a tougher time with Leif Erickson as a pugnacious father who doesn't want him hanging out with his daughter. The bad blood between these two characters doesn't change until the last minute. Barbara Stanwyck seems to be in charge of the carnival that she runs. She has a couple of scenes with the King of Rock'n Rock, but she spends most of her time lecturing him. Actually, Elvis plays a louse. He hits the road after a rather one-sided bar fracas where he drops three irate college students with his karate chops. It seems that they sought to assault him for warbling anti-college lyrics. Our hero gets back on his bike after a girl who worked in the bar with him pays his bail. As Charlie Rogers, Elvis tells her that bailing him out doesn't mean the same thing as buying him and he leaves her standing. As he heads for the west coast for a better job, he spots Joan riding in a jeep with her parents. Naturally, the father --Leif Erickson—is not amused by Elvis's flirtatious behavior and runs him off the road. Elvis loses control of his bike and his guitar is damaged. He sticks around with Stanwyck and helps out as a roustabout for her carnival until she can have both his bike and guitar repaired. Of course, the girl wins in the end after Elvis has proved that he can draw big crowds at the carnival.

Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck became probably the biggest name ever to appear in an Elvis Presley movie in Roustabout. Barbara plays the owner of a carnival who takes in Presley after the King has been fired from a gig at a club. Of course she owes him after her right hand man Leif Erickson runs Elvis off the road and damages his motorcycle and guitar.After a while what's keeping him around is pretty young Joan Freeman who is Erickson's daughter. And Presley's drawing in some big bucks and may just pull the carnival out of the red, the red being the mortgage that banker Dabbs Greer has on Stanwyck's show. That is if rival carnival owner Pat Buttram doesn't lure him away or fortune teller Sue Ane Langdon doesn't lure him with her own special lure.I think Roustabout ranks as one of Presley's best feature films. He was starting to lose his allure to the fans of the Beatles and soon enough his pictures would become a rote formula. But as the young man with a chip on his shoulder who becomes a Roustabout at the Stanwyck carnival Elvis is at his very best.For Stanwyck she saw this as a way of getting her name across to younger movie audiences. But after one more film she would abandon the big screen for the small one and did all her remaining work on television.The title song and a song called Poison Ivy are the best for Elvis in the 11 numbers from the score. I didn't know Elvis went in for satire but the song is a really acid number against privileged college frat boys, I really loved it. It's also what gets him canned from that club gig.Fans of both legends should be pleased with Roustabout.

I just watched one of my Christmas presents, the ROUSTABOUT DVD and was sad to observe that they "cut" parts of it out from the regular movie and video......The Tea Room scene where Raquel Welch appears after the fight scene, her part was cut! Plus the Red West bit-part was cut.And on the DVD box it mentions Raquel Welch's "girls in shower" scene as her debut which is a GOOF. That's not her. Her debut was in the first scenes in the movie which was cut from the DVD version. Why Paramount, oh why?Bill Kaval 12-29-03