Flaming Star

Flaming Star (1960)

  • 90% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (4,900 ratings)

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… More

PG, 1 hr. 41 min.
Directed By
Don Siegel
Written By
Clair Huffaker
Genres
Western, Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1960 Wide
On DVD
Feb 28, 2006

Critic Reviews

  • Bill Chambers, Film Freak Central

    The filmmaking may be a little ramshackle, but it's sensitive, and the performances are soulful.

  • Blake French, Filmcritic.com

    ...proves that Elvis didn't just get lucky with his first performance; the boy could actually act.

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    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.

  • Sean Axmaker, MSN.com

    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.

  • Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal

    Elvis' best performance, in a solid Don Siegel Western

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    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.

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