Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6938 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-10-06
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 307 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
G.I. Blues

After Elvis Presley got out of the army in 1960, he was instantly ushered into this Paramount movie about an Oklahoma singer who (surprise) gets out of the army and wants to open a club. Making a potentially lucrative bet that he can seduce a cabaret singer (Juliet Prowse), Elvis instead falls in love. Refurbished from his rockabilly roots into a slicker model for early-'60s pop, the Elvis of this movie is the one who made almost 30 more just like it. The songs include the title track, plus "It's Not Good Enough for You," "Tonight Is So Right for Love," and "Wooden Heart." Directed by Norman Taurog, a studio veteran who made his first film in 1928 and worked numerous times with Presley as well as Jerry Lewis. --Tom Keogh

King Creole

Before his handlers persuaded him to settle for the safety of a screen franchise, the young Elvis Presley had weightier ambitions as an actor. The 1958 King Creole, his fourth feature outing, hints at the underlying seriousness of his goals. Presley plays Danny Fisher, a New Orleans teenager struggling to graduate from high school while working in a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family. He's also characterised as a troubled youth with a dangerous temper and feelings of shame and resentment toward his meek, unemployed father (Dean Jagger). When Danny's gift for singing provides him with a potential career break (and the requisite excuse for Elvis's production numbers), his involvement with a ruthless gangster (Walter Matthau) and his sultry, alcoholic moll (Carolyn Jones) threatens both his future and his family.

King Creole boasts an impressive production pedigree (including producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz, the team behind Casablanca) and the supporting cast helps elicit one of Presley's most emotional performances. Jones in particular overrides the inherent clichés of her role: her self-loathing and sexuality are both palpable. Presley--still a few years away from the more sanitised image that would be integral to those franchise features--is young enough to be a credible teen, but more crucially he makes his rage and yearning largely convincing. --Sam Sutherland

Blue Hawaii

Elvis Presley's seventh film was the first of his "Hawaii trilogy" (a group completed by Girls! Girls! Girls! and Paradise, Hawaiian Style). While its story is daft--the King has just been released from his army-posting in Italy and returned to the islands, where he's trying to avoid working in his father's fruit business--the music, including "Blue Hawaii," "Almost Always True" and the beautiful "Can't Help Falling in Love", is not. Angela Lansbury plays Elvis's mother, who can't seem to get through to him. The film is directed by Elvis's frequent collaborator, Norman Taurog. --Tom Keogh

Synopsis
A collection of three films starring Elvis Presley.


G.I. Blues tells the musical tale of a singing G.I stationed in West Germany who dreams of opening his own club when he gets out of the service. He has very little money, though, so he makes a large bet with a fellow serviceman. In order to win, he must spend the night with beautiful and hard-to-get cabaret dancer... and get her to fall in love with him.


Considered by many to be the best Elvis movie, King Creole stars the young Mr. Presley as Danny Fisher, a singer with a knack for getting into trouble. After the cops nab him for stealing, Danny vows never to violate the law again. He manages to land a gig singing at a hip nightclub in the French Quarter of New Orleans. But a romantic clinch with his mobster boss' girlfriend lands him in all sorts of hot water.


Blue Hawaii rounds off the set with the tale of a U.S. serviceman who returns home to Honolulu and becomes a tour guide, much to the dismay of his parents who had hoped he would enter into the family pineapple plantation. His decision is made simple by one of the job's biggest perks: he gets to dance with, and sing to, some of Hawaii's most beautiful women.

Customer Reviews

The KIng at his best!
King Creole was supposed to be a James Dean film, but Elvis makes it his own, and of course he sings Trouble, GI Blues and Blue Hawaii not the story line of King Creole but Elvis is in his prime, looking good and sounding great. Great Value, The King's 3 best films in 1 set.

Elvis is in the building
DVD collection containing 3 seperate dvds. Ideal way to build up your Elvis collection.King Creole was filmed in black and white but still a good film.Good collection to have.

Elvis Early Films
Really enjoyed these films from the King of Rock.
Quality very good. Great price.
Good to see the king showing his versatility.