Title:
4 film favorites. Elvis Presley classics.
JLCTITLE245:
Elvis Presley classics.
Publication Information:
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2008.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (400 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781419873812
General Note:
Jailhouse rock based on a story by Ned Young. Stay away, Joe based on the novel by Dan Cushman.
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
Jailhouse rock and It Happened at the World's Fair: not rated ; Stay Away Joe rated PG and Charro rated G.
Added Author:
Added Corporate Author:
Added Title Contained Works:
Jailhouse rock.
It happened at the World's Fair.
Stay away, Joe.
Charro!
Variant Title:
Four film favorites
Portion of title: Elvis Presley classics
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).
Credits:
Jailhouse rock: Music supervised by Jeff Alexander ; songs mostly by Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber ; additional songs by Roy C. Bennett, Aaron Schroeder, Abner Silver, Sid Topper, Ben Weisman ; art directors, William A. Horning and Randall Duell ; set decorations, Henry Grace, Keogh Gleason ; special effects, A. Arnold Gillespie ; film editor, Ralph E. Winters ; recording supervisor, Wesley C. Miller.
It happened at the World's Fair: Music score, Leith Stevens ; art direction, George W. Davis and Preston Ames ; set decoration, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt ; film editor, Fredric Steinkamp ; recording supervisor, Franklin Milton ; vocal backgrounds by The Jordanaires and The Mello Men ; musical numbers staged by Jack Baker.
Stay away, Joe: Music score by Jack Marshall ; art directors, George W. Davis and Carl Anderson ; set decoration, Henry Grace, Don Greenwood ; film editor, George W. Brooks ; vocal backgrounds by The Jordanaires ; recording supervisor, Franklin Milton.
Charro!: Art director, James Sullivan ; film editor, Al Clark ; set decoration, Charles Thompson ; sound by Roy Meadows ; men's wardrobe by Bob Fuca ; ladie's costumes by Violet B. Martin ; music composed and conducted by Hugo Montenegro ; song "Charro!" words and music by Billy Strange and Scott Davis.
Performer:
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.
Technical Details:
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (2.4:1) presentation enhanced for 16x9 televisions; Dolby digital mono, Dolby surround 5.1.
Language:
In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish with optional English SDH, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.