What is Jailhouse Rock / Smokey Joe's Cafe about?

Name: Jailhouse Rock / Smokey Joe's Cafe
Genre: Drama,Music/Performing Arts

JAILHOUSE ROCK, 1957, Warner Bros., 96 min. Dir. Richard Thorpe. Our salute to Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller - one of the greatest songwriter/producer teams in rock 'n' roll history - leads off with Elvis Presley’s landmark 1957 film for which they wrote most of the songs. In his third film, Elvis plays a young man serving a term for manslaughter. His cellmate is a former country music star (Mickey Shaughnessy) who introduces him to the record business. Once the King is released from stir, he quickly rises to the top as a rock ‘n’ roll singer. But will he remember how he got there?! One of the best Elvis films, it features slam-bang Leiber & Stoller songs and that jawdroppingly-great “Jailhouse Rock” production sequence. With Judy Tyler. SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ, 2002, HBO, 105 min. Dir. Don Roy King. The deftly filmed version of the Broadway spectacular that celebrated over 40 songs from the pioneering rock ‘n’ roll canon of Leiber & Stoller – in an exhilarating non-stop revue.

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What is Jailhouse Rock / Smokey Joe's Cafe about?: JAILHOUSE ROCK, 1957, Warner Bros., 96 min. Dir. Richard Thorpe. Our salute to Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller - one of the greatest songwriter/producer teams in rock 'n' roll history - leads off with Elvis Presley’s landmark 1957 film for which they wrote most of the songs. In his third film, Elvis plays a young man serving a term for manslaughter. His cellmate is a former country music star (Mickey Shaughnessy) who introduces him to the record business. Once the King is released from stir, he quickly rises to the top as a rock ‘n’ roll singer. But will he remember how he got there?! One of the best Elvis films, it features slam-bang Leiber & Stoller songs and that jawdroppingly-great “Jailhouse Rock” production sequence. With Judy Tyler.

SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ, 2002, HBO, 105 min. Dir. Don Roy King. The deftly filmed version of the Broadway spectacular that celebrated over 40 songs from the pioneering rock ‘n’ roll canon of Leiber & Stoller – in an exhilarating non-stop revue.