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- Based on the novel Kid Galahad by Francis Wallace (Boston, 1936).
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Kid Galahad is a 1962 American musical film starring Elvis Presley as a boxer. It was released by United Artists in August 1962 and opened at #9 at the American box office. Variety ranked it #37 on its list of the top-grossing films of 1962. Kid Galahad was shot on location in Idyllwild, California.
By then, though, it was too late for him to make that dream come true. In 1969 he left Hollywood and returned to the concert stage. Kid Galahad in 1962, then, was a watershed film in Elvis Presley’s development as an actor.
For Elvis' tenth feature, Paramount researched Hollywood's golden era for a potential remake vehicle and came up with Kid Galahad (1962) which had been a box office winner for Warner Brothers in 1937. It was based on a Saturday Evening Post story and starred Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Wayne Morris as an up-and-coming ...
- Phil Karlson, Jerome M. Siegel
- Elvis Presley
With the release of Kid Galahad in the late summer of 1962, the nation’s film reviewers were finally conceding that Elvis Presley had made the transition from detestable rock ’n’ roller (in their eyes) to established movie star.
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Kid Galahad: Directed by Phil Karlson. With Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman. After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter and takes him under his wing.
He's roped into becoming a boxer by a dubious manager-turned-innkeeper (Gig Young) while catching the eye of the man's kid sister (Joan Blackman). With the mentorship of his trainer (Charles Bronson), he quickly becomes the top-drawing champion dubbed Kid Galahad.
