Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

tilloscfc I'm going to go against what I said in a previous review - Blue Hawaii - where I stated that 1960's Wild In The Country would be the last serious role Elvis Presley would play until 1968's 'Charro'. 'Kid Galahad' can hardly be described as "silly" or "lightweight musical comedy". In it, The King plays Walter Gulick - like in Blue Hawaii fresh from 2 years military service - and returns to his hometown to buy a Garage. In the meantime, he needs money, and after boxing for the Army, joins the local boxing academy where his steel jaw and canon fist makes him an asset and sets him off on the road to fame and fortune, and ultimately his own business and a future with fiancée Joan Blackman - his co-star from 'Blue Hawaii'. Once again 'Kid Galahad' showcases Elvis' talents as a serious actor with top actors around him, in this case veterans Gig Young and hardman Charles Bronson. Mushy Callahan trained Elvis for six weeks prior to filming and was impressed with his boxing ability, apparently due to the Karate that Elvis had been studying for 3 years by this point. One amusing story from behind the scenes was during filming and the talk of boxing and karate came up and Elvis in impressing the crew performed an act involving splitting a board in two with one punch, much to Charles Bronson's displeasure...Bronson was then encouraged to show he could do the same...but couldn't! An MGM exec claims "we heard the sound of something breaking but it was not the board..." Of course 'Kid Galahad' isn't in the same class as 'Raging Bull' or 'Rocky' but is arguably better than recent boxing flick 'Grudge Match' if only for it's seriousness, which is improved even further for the sub plot involving Academy School owner Gig Young's financial problems and corruption which leads to threats and scenes of intimidation in the movie. All in all, an enjoyable Movie, a few decent Elvis songs thrown in (only 6 though, less than half the amount that appeared in 'Blue Hawaii') I give 'Kid Galahad' a strong 6 out of 10.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . Dale Evans be RAGING BULLS, too? KID GALAHAD asks the question, "What if Justin Bieber were a better singer, and a top-notch prize-fighter, to boot?" Elvis Presley never would have appeared politically correct enough to make the Final Four in national AMER1CAN IDOL voting. However, Mr. Presley had a gentleman in his corner known as "Col. Tom Parker," who ran his own beta version of "Reality TV," starring Elvis in his own "Bum of the Month Club." That is, about once a month, Elvis would show up on the Big Screen, pretending to be a broke scrapper who runs afoul of anyone with Money (and sometimes their law enforcement henchmen), charms the nearest Rich Girl with his singing, and waltzes off into the sunset with his new Sugar Mommy (in usually VERY abrupt endings!). KID GALAHAD fits Col. Parker's formula to a Model T. My copy of this movie says that it's a remake of a 1937 flick starring Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. I would guess that this story in the original version had a lot less crooning, and a lot more BELIEVABLE scrapping.

classicsoncall Comparisons to the 1937 version of "Kid Galahad" are pointless, the only similarity between the two films is the nickname of the title character. It probably suits Elvis Presley a bit better than Wayne Morris, the knight in shining armor who at the film's opening touts his reputation in song as 'King of the Whole Wide World'. The movie's trailer calls it a 'honey of a picture', and for his fans back in the day, maybe so.Events in the story conspire to turn Presley's character Walter Gulick from an ex-GI mechanic into a successful local boxer, thereby earning him a paycheck and the heart of Rose Grogan (Joan Blackman), kid sis of Willy (Gig Young). Together they own the Grogan Gaelic Gardens, an upstate New York resort that can't turn a profit because Willy Grogan is a gambling lush in hock to local hoods.You'd be hard pressed to call this a boxing movie though, Elvis takes turns as a punching bag in virtually every ring scene until he finds the magnetic wonder punch to knock his opponent out. The dramatic set up for Cream Valley's Labor Day extravaganza includes Grogan's encounter with the bad boys who hope to make a killing with bets on the fight. Kid Galahad comes through, but you knew that, this is the King's movie.There are some interesting casting surprises here, highlighted by Charles Bronson's turn as Galahad's trainer, and a very early film appearance by the uncredited Ed Asner. Gig Young is generally competent as Grogan, while female leads Lola Albright and Joan Blackman don't have a lot to do except play off their respective boyfriends. Albright's Dolly Fletcher gets to fire off an effective one liner defending Elvis' character when she starts to lose patience for Grogan's marriage delays.Every now and then you'll catch an art deco tease with vivid reds, yellow and blues interspersed with Presley's songs. All are fairly mellow tunes; the "I Got Lucky" number brought a chuckle as I imagined it being performed in a corn field instead of by the side of a lake. You know, the slow twist accompaniment seemed a bit, well, corny.Hey, it's not a bad little flick and a better way to remember Elvis by than the bloated self destructive image he came to bear in the years before his death. A bit of escapist entertainment that in it's way echoes Dolly Fletcher's sentiment early in the film - "Thanks Galahad".

yderringer As long as Elvis Presley is in the cast, I'll always give it a 10!! I'm 58 and my generation look at Elvis as a watershed event in American Show Business (cap. by author). Those who didn't GET the 50's and the 60's deserve a lot of sympathy for the wonderful things that came to pass!!!! Although, seeing films from my decadent youth only makes me wistful for those times. I know E. looked like he knew enough about boxing to pull it off and he was in pretty good shape for the role of Galahad. He had been out of the Army for about two years and he hadn't gotten to the bad things in his lifestyle that made him leave at 42. But 1962 was a very good year. And I really like "Clambake" too!!