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Roustabout | 
 enlarge | Director: John Rich
Actors: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Sue Ane Langdon
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 16308
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD6380244D
ISBN: 0792164873
UPC: 097363802440
EAN: 9786305837855
ASIN: 6305837856
Theatrical Release Date: November 11, 1964
Release Date: May 2, 2000
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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
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 Roustabout November 4, 2008
Sharon Deane (Springfield, Mo.)
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.
Roustabout July 3, 2008
Linda Huntington (Northcenrtral Ohio, USA)
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.
 More of Paramount's shoddy dvd products June 15, 2008
Burritoman
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 of them don't even have chapter access to the SONGS. Like this one. You read right.
Hard to believe, isn't it? Paramount is continuing their reign as worst major studio dvd publisher...
Elvis Presley-Roustabout November 12, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 ENJOYABLE February 22, 2007
N. A. D. Yacoob (KZN,SOUTH AFRICA)
ELVIS SHOWS WHAT A TALENTED ACTOR HE IS.BARBARA SYANWYCK IS POLISHED AND LEIF ERICKSON SOLID .WITH A DECENT SUPPORTING CAST, A GOOD STORY IS TURNED INTO A PLEASING MOVIE. HERE ,ELVIS IS A SINGER WITH A CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER AND PRONE TO TROUBLE.HE JOINS A CARNIVAL AND FINALLY LEARNS THE MEANING OF HARD WORK AND TRUE LOVE.ELVIS SINGS HIS HIT 'LITTLE EGYPT' AND ALSO 'POISON IVY LEAGUE'.MOST ENJOYABLE. AHMED YACOOB.
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