Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1960 Wide
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Tensely directed by Don Siegel, Flaming Star is the grittiest of Elvis Presley's post-Army films. Elvis plays Pacer Burton, a half-breed youth in the old West, torn between loyalty to the whites, as represented by his father (John McIntyre), and the Indians, represented by his mother (Dolores Del Rio). A series of brutal Kiowa raids, and the subsequent reprisals by the white settlers, sorely test Pacer's fortitude. Though offered moral support from his loved ones, Pacer is forced to work things
Jan 1, 1960 Wide
Feb 28, 2006
All Critics (13) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (1) | DVD (9)
The filmmaking may be a little ramshackle, but it's sensitive, and the performances are soulful.
...proves that Elvis didn't just get lucky with his first performance; the boy could actually act.
Famed action director Don Siegel saw an element of raw danger in Elvis and gave him his very best role in this excellent quasi-Western.
Less an "Elvis film" than a western starring young Presley in a surprisingly well cast role, this lean frontier drama... offers one of his most impressive performances.
Elvis' best performance, in a solid Don Siegel Western
An emotionally charged liberal themed Western that keeps things rocking.
Among the best Presley features; directed by Don Siegel.
If only the King had been paired more frequently with directors like Don Siegel and Michael Curtiz, he'd have given more terrific performances like the one here.
Although the sight of a shirtless Elvis wrestling a native warrior is fascinating enough, there are few surprises in the sequence of events.
Only okay as westerns go and actually very dark at the end but miles ahead of most of the tripe that Elvis was thrown into by the Colonel.
September 26, 2007
Super Reviewer
It?s an unusual western, and an unusual Elvis Presley film. More morose than I was expecting. The period detail is atrocious. The hairstyles are right out of 1960, not 1860. Still, it tackles some issues, and isn't a shallow film. Well produced
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