
Jailhouse Rock
01 hours 36 minutes
- Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor
- Richard Thorpe
- Drama, Music, Musical
- November 8, 1957
- English
- Greatest Musicals
Tickets Sold (Domestic): 17.3 m.
Domestic Gross: $ 8.7 m.
Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out. However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he decides to form his own label, and soon becomes an overnight sensation. But when he becomes a superstar, will his desire for fame and money cause him to forget the people who got him there?