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This Thursday, the King is back. King Creole that is. The New Orleans Film Society and Louisiana State Museum and its Foundation are sponsoring an outdoor screening of the classic Elvis Presley film. Presley plays “hard loving, hard hitting” high-school dropout Danny Fisher, whose unemployed father leaves him no choice but to navigate the crooked world of the Vieux Carre nightclub scene. With the help of a couple of local floozies, Fisher eventually surfaces as a singer in the King Creole nightclub.

The film, which co-stars Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, and Dolores Hart, will be projected on the Film Society’s new, inflatable screen on the grounds of the Old U.S. Mint. The movie starts around 8:15 p.m. Tickets are $6, or $3 for members of the New Orleans Film Society, Louisiana Museum Foundation, or Friends of the Cabildo. The trailer for King Creole is above, and to whet the appetite, here are two short clips from the movie, one featuring Presley singing.

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