Roustabout (DVD, 2000, Sensormatic Anamorphic Widescreen)

Roustabout is a great addition to a collection of elvis movies. I enjoy it very much. I enjoy most of Elvis Presley's work both as an actor and an entertainer.

The Elvis formula was well in place by the time of 1964's Roustabout: a passel of undistinguished songs (anyone remember "Poison Ivy League"?), pretty girls, tight pants, a colorful setting, and a little bit of karate to prove that Elvis really had been studying his martial arts. With that understood, Roustabout is a better-than-average workout for the King--not as peppy as Viva Las Vegas, but a good deal livelier than the sleepwalking It Happened at the World's Fair. Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle; laid up after an accident, he joins a carnival owned by the feisty Barbara Stanwyck. ("This is not a circus, it's a carnival. There's a big difference.") The cast goes from high to low: both giant-sized future James Bond villain Richard Kiel and tiny Billy Barty are carny regulars, and Raquel Welch has a small role in the opening scene. Teri Garr is one of the carnival dancers behind Elvis. The legendary costume designer Edith Head puts Elvis in a series of snappy windbreakers, but thank goodness he's also in black leather a lot. As if that weren't enough to recommend it, the movie has a sequence involving Elvis riding a cycle inside the "Wall of Death," a huge wooden cylinder with high walls. This bit actually inspired an entire Irish film in 1986, Eat the Peach, in which friends build a similar contraption after they watch Roustabout on tape.

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My husbands favorite movie,bought it for his birthday..It was new in pavckage and I wanted a new one,alos it was in DVD

I received the DVD in a timely manner and it was in mint condition. i got the DVD for my Mom and she loves it. It was a DVD impossible to find in the department and video store. Thanks.

11 year old grandosn likes elvis, has for years, also he love's Elvis songs. that is why i got this, for him.

roustabout is full of music excitment adventure drama and fun for those who like elvis movies a must for those elvis fans who like his movies

I have been looking for this movie for a very long time. It is one of my husbands favorites and I couldn't find it it any store. It has a lot of fun and music..Definately a watcher and a keeper. It is one of those movies that you could watch over and over again and see something new every time.

A good, fun movie with Elvis. Lots of great singing. We're Elvis lovers, so no matter what he did, it was great to us.