Elvis Presley Movie:

Editorial Review:
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

Roustabout [Region 2] Reviews:
roustabout -dvd
2009-02-25 - the dvd was as advertised and shipped very timely - very pleased - thanks

Elvis movie
2008-11-26 - 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.

Roustabout
2008-11-04 - 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
2008-07-03 - 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
2008-06-15 - 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...