After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Elvis Presley | ... | Charlie Rogers | |
| Barbara Stanwyck | ... | Maggie Morgan | |
| Joan Freeman | ... | Cathy Lean | |
| Leif Erickson | ... | Joe Lean | |
| Sue Ane Langdon | ... | Madame Mijanou | |
| Pat Buttram | ... | Harry Carver | |
| Joan Staley | ... | Marge | |
| Dabbs Greer | ... | Arthur Nielsen | |
| Steve Brodie | ... | Fred | |
| Norman Grabowski | ... | Sam | |
| Jack Albertson | ... | Lou | |
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Jane Dulo | ... | Hazel |
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Joel Fluellen | ... | Cody Marsh |
| Wilda Taylor | ... | Little Egypt | |
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Charlie Rogers is a leather-jacketed biker who's fired from a singing engagement after getting into a fight with a group of college toughs. While riding his cycle to the next gig, an irate dad runs him off the road when he flirts with his daughter. He's forced to hook up with a traveling carnival until his bike can be fixed. The carnival is run by a tough old broad, a broken-down drunk and his nubile daughter. Along the way, Charlie (who's got a chip on his shoulder about being an orphan) somehow learns about family values from this vaguely dysfunctional one. A scheming rival carny shows up, based on the legend of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's real-life manager. Written by alfiehitchie
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psychotronic film | carnival | one word title | drifter | fortune teller |Taglines:
Elvis Presley as a Roving, Restless, Reckless, ROUSTABOUTMotion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
11 November 1964 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Right This Way Folks! See more »Filming Locations:
Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Edit
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$3,000,000Company Credits
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Written by Bill Giant, Bernie Baum & Florence Kaye
Performed by Elvis Presley
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The Roustabout soundtrack album was #1 on the Billboard Albums Chart. Which was a great accomplishment in that it reached #1 during the peak of Beatle Mania and the British Invasion. See more »Goofs
Several new vehicles in the film, including police cars, display California dealer license plates. See more »Quotes
Charlie Rogers: I'll be back in ten minute with a football hero's lament 'I left my knee at USC'.See more »
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One Track HeartWritten by Bill Giant, Bernie Baum & Florence Kaye
Performed by Elvis Presley
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Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck became probably the biggest name ever to appear in an Elvis Presley movie in Roustabout. Barbara plays the owner of a carnival who takes in Presley after the King has been fired from a gig at a club. Of course she owes him after her right hand man Leif Erickson runs Elvis off the road and damages his motorcycle and guitar.
After a while what's keeping him around is pretty young Joan Freeman who is Erickson's daughter. And Presley's drawing in some big bucks and may just pull the carnival out of the red, the red being the mortgage that banker Dabbs Greer has on Stanwyck's show. That is if rival carnival owner Pat Buttram doesn't lure him away or fortune teller Sue Ane Langdon doesn't lure him with her own special lure.
I think Roustabout ranks as one of Presley's best feature films. He was starting to lose his allure to the fans of the Beatles and soon enough his pictures would become a rote formula. But as the young man with a chip on his shoulder who becomes a Roustabout at the Stanwyck carnival Elvis is at his very best.
For Stanwyck she saw this as a way of getting her name across to younger movie audiences. But after one more film she would abandon the big screen for the small one and did all her remaining work on television.
The title song and a song called Poison Ivy are the best for Elvis in the 11 numbers from the score. I didn't know Elvis went in for satire but the song is a really acid number against privileged college frat boys, I really loved it. It's also what gets him canned from that club gig.
Fans of both legends should be pleased with Roustabout.