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King Creole
Crime, Drama, Music
Delinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at The Blue Shade. Danny declines, but Fields won't take no for an answer.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy brooding musical drama where youthful charisma collides with criminal pressure and hard-won independence.
- Tone
- tense, melancholic, romantic
- Payoff
- catharsis, swoon
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, rebellion, coercion, class mobility, moral choice
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, nightlife districts and working-class urban neighborhoods
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