Film · 1958 · Films · 1950s
King Creole
Scored from 63 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).
Summary
Danny Fisher (Elvis Presley) is a New Orleans teenager who has failed to finish high school and buses tables in a French Quarter nightclub while his widowed father, a broken-down pharmacist, sinks further into failure. Danny's singing wins him a spot at the King Creole club, but racketeer Maxie Fields wants the act for himself and holds leverage through the petty thieves Danny once ran with. Caught between a shopgirl named Nellie and Maxie's damaged mistress Ronnie, Danny watches his family drawn into the gangster's orbit. Michael Curtiz directs this black-and-white musical crime drama, adapted from Harold Robbins's novel A Stone for Danny Fisher.
King Creole (1958) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and musical genres. It is rated Approved. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 116 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 184 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 63 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 67 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 560 1950s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where King Creole lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1950s (561 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 63.
Cohort: Films · 1950s
