TITLE- KING CREOLE Essay looks at the way that music was used in the popular Elvis film 'King Creole', and how popular music guides the film helping to define the characters within the story.

"KING CREOLE" King Creole is shot in black and white. Elvis' character Danny Fisher, is a singer with a knack for getting into trouble. After being thrown out of high school, Danny gets in with a bad bunch of guys and agrees to help them rob a five and dime store by singing in order to create a diversion. It is during this robbery that he meets Nellie (Dolores Hart). Danny tries the whole film …

…films advantage. Moralistically, Danny is trying to do the right thing, keeping his father and his sister, but the way he ends up going about it is by no means moralistic. The moral panic that was described at the time in Britain is understandable, and perhaps maybe even justified. Wendy Tucker BIBLIOGRAPHY 1.Caine, A.J. (2001) The Velvet Light Trap 48 , "Calculated Violence and Viciousness': The British Critical Reaction to King Creole" p. 34-47 2.Curtiz (1958) King Creole .