High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! King Creole is a 1958 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The story was adapted from the Harold Robbins novel A Stone for Danny Fisher (1952) and featured Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau. The film tells the story of a nineteen-year-old who gets mixed up with crooks and involved with two women. Presley later said that this was his favorite acting role.