Jailhouse rock. It happened at the World's Fair. Stay away, Joe. Charro!
Notes:
Jailhouse rock: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor, Jennifer Holden, Dean Jones, Anne Neyland. It happened at the World's Fair: Elvis Presley, Joan O'Brien, Gary Lockwood, Vicky Tiu, H.M. Wynant, Edith Atwater, Guy Raymond, Dorothy Green, Kam Tong, Yvonne Craig. Stay away, Joe: Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, Henry Jones, L.Q. Jones, Quentin Dean, Anne Seymour, Douglas Henderson, Angus Duncan, Michael Lane, Susan Trustman, Warren Vanders, Buck Kartalian. Charro: Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French, Barbara Werle, Solomon Sturges, Lynn Kellogg, Paul Brinegar, Harry Landers, Tony Young, James Almanzar, Charles H. Gray, John Pickard, Barry Walberg, Duane Grey, Robert Luster, James Sikking. Jailhouse rock based on a story by Ned Young. Stay away, Joe based on the novel by Dan Cushman.
Contents:
Jailhouse rock / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents an Avon production ; screen play by Guy Trosper ; director of photography, Robert Bronner ; associate producer, Kathryn Hereford ; produced by Pandro S. Berman ; directed by Richard Thorpe (b&w ; 96 min. ; c1957) -- It happened at the World's Fair / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Ted Richmond production ; director of photography, Joseph Ruttenberg ; written by Si Rose and Seaman Jacobs ; directed by Norman Taurog (col. ; 105 min. ; c1963) -- Stay away, Joe / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; director of photography, Fred Koenekamp ; screen play by Michael A. Hoey ; produced by Douglas Laurence ; directed by Peter Tewksbury (col. ; 101 min. ; c1968) -- Charro! / National General Pictures ; director of photography, Ellsworth Fredericks ; associate producer, Dink Templeton ; executive producer, Harry A. Caplan ; screenplay by Charles Marquis Warren ; story by Frederic Louis Fox ; produced and directed by Charles Marquis Warren (col. ; 98 min. ; c1969).
Summary:
Jailhouse rock: After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star. It happened at the World's Fair: Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father has disappeared. Stay away, Joe: Native American rodeo rider, Joe Lightcloud, a Navajo whose family still lives on the reservation, returns to the reservation in a white Cadillac convertible with which he proceeds to drive cattle. Charro! Jess Wade is innocently accused of having stolen a cannon from the Mexican revolutionary forces. He tries to find the real culprits, a gang of criminals.
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