ELVIS FILMOGRAPHY (1962): "KID GALAHAD"

 

ELVIS FILMOGRAPHY (1962)

 "KID GALAHAD" 

EDITED AUGUST 10, 1962

UNITED ARTIST

ELVIS AND CHARLES BRONSON, TOGETHER IN A MOVIE

ELVIS PRESLEY as Walter Gulick

GIG YOUNG as Willy Grogan

LOLA ALBRIGHT as Dolly Fletcher

JOAN BLACKMAN as Rose Grogan

CHARLES BRONSON as Lew Nyack

EDWARD ASNER as Frank Gerson

ROY ROBERTS as Jerry Bathgate

JUDSON PRATT as Howard Zimmerman

ROBERT EMHARDT as Maynard

LIAM REDMOND as Father Higgins

NED GLASS as Max Lieberman

PHIL KARLSON in the Direction

DAVID WEISBART in the Production

WILLIAM FAY-FRANCIS WALLACE in the Script

JEFF ALEXANDER in the Music

BURNETT GUFFEY in the Photography

Genre: Drama

Duration: 96 minutes

Premiere in the USA: August 11, 1962

Information 

The young Walter Gulik (Elvis Presley) returns from military service with the intention of resuming his quiet life as a car mechanic. An experienced boxer, he sees how he has to return to the ring due to the dangerous relations that his representative (Gig Young) maintains with the world of the game.

Remake of the film starring in 1937 by Edward G.Robinson, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart and curiously directed by Michael Curtiz (King Creole). 

For this new version, Elvis surrounds himself with illustrious names from the world of Hollywood such as Gig Young and the eternal tough guy Charles Bronson, in addition to repeating the bill with his Joan Blackman (Blue Hawaii, 1961). A film that tries to combine the drama formula with the musical numbers of the king of rock and the result was good.

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