Roustabout (film)
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| Directed by | John Rich |
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| Story by | Allan Weiss |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
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| Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
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| Music by | Joseph J. Lilley |
Production company | Hal Wallis Productions |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3,300,000 (US/ Canada rentals) |
Roustabout is a 1964 American musical feature film starring Elvis Presley as a singer who takes a job working with a struggling carnival. The film was produced by Hal Wallis and directed by John Rich from a screenplay by Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss. The screenplay was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for best written American musical although Roustabout received a lukewarm review in Variety. The film's soundtrack album was one of Elvis Presley's most successful, reaching no. 1 on the Billboard Album Chart. It was filmed in Techniscope at Paramount Studios, with carnival sequences shot in Thousand Oaks, California. Filming began in March 1964.