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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9786305837855
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792164873
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2000
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 7607
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: November 11, 1964
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/21/2007
Amazon.com essential video:
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. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Elvis movie
Our boy is looking real cool in his black leather motorcycle jacket. A sharp dresser for sure. The movie is fun. Motorcycle lovers get to see Elvis on a Honda Superhawk.
Rating:  - Roustabout
We received this movie very fast and in good condition. It was an enjoyable movie and if you like Elvis and musicals you should get this one. We will definitely order from this seller again.
Rating: - Roustabout
Want to see a good clean movie well here is one to enjoy and makes for good memories as well. It may be an older movie but shows how changing ones attutide can bring about a better outlook of life and how to enjoy it to the fullest. I have watched this several time and intend to keep doing so. Elvis is still the Greatest in my opinion.
Rating:  - More of Paramount's shoddy dvd products
As far as I can discern, the only reason anyone would buy "Roustabout" or "Easy Come Easy Go", etc. is to see Elvis perform the admittedly weak songs.
In lieu of anything else in the films, singing is all there is to enjoy; I'd hazard to guess 99.99% of viewers aren't expecting an engrossing story.
So how does Paramount treat the folks who would buy these musicals? Pretty poorly. There's zero extras (some of their Presley releases don't even include the trailers) and, worst of all, many ... Read More
Rating: - Elvis Presley-Roustabout
My husband has been looking for this movie on and off for a few years. I found it on Amazon and purchased it for him for Christmas.
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