Jailhouse Rock - Colorized Edition

I was never in favour of tampering with the original and I have no interest whatsover in watching a colorized version of JR, or the other two b/w films for that matter, just as much as I hated the electronically processed stereo of his mono recordings so poplular in the 70's and 80's. Would you endorse having tattoes or ear-piercing done on the Mona Lisa?!

I have had this on video for a few years now, no doubt other fans have too. I wont be "upgrading" to DVD as I only bought the video in the first place out of curiosity nothing more only to find I really prefered the original B&W anyway. I suppose being a fan it is logical to look for something different even though for me the original proved to be the best.

This originally came out in a box with the Lost Performances back in 92.Its a shame it wasn't included with the new DVD release of the film. When you compare with the current version on DVD you get more picture top and bottom but a little less to the left and right..Some of the Paramount releases loose a bit when compared to their old VHS releases to.

JR and his other B&W films were meant to be in black and white. We did have color movies at the time. They lose the feeling of the movie when they are changed to color. Not on my list to have.

Hey webmaster are you sleepin´ Jailhouse rock was released some months ago .

Colorizing a B&W movie is an insult to the artists who initially created it. It's like tampering with Elvis music.

I'm against colorization of ANY movie.

I have seen parts of the colour version on You Tube, I prefer the film in Black & White anyway. The only people who wants this in colour are the 'fashion people' or the teenage generation, although I am 19. EJF what's wrong with music in Stereo?

i'm lookin for a copy on dvdr , i have lots unreleased concert film for trade, just pm me.

Aarons, I believe an explanation is called for. Of course I have nothing against TRUE stereo. In fact I go mad whenever some song, and I don't mean just Elvis songs, that were recorded in stereo are released in mono. Since you are only 19 years you don't remember that in the 70's and 80's it was fashionable for Record Companies to take their back catalogue of their artists's music, including RCA and Elvis' 50's output which was recorded in mono and electronically process them to sound stereo. What they basically did was split the two stereo channels and boost the low frequencies on one channel and the high frequencies on the other. This was FAKE stereo and sounded awful and very echoey. I still have some Vinyl Albums that were released that way. Needless to say I rarely play them nowadays. I do hope that was some help.

Thank you EJF least now I have an idea of how stereo sounded like back in the 70's and 80's. And why they are against it.

I got the colorized version of this film on VHS in 1992 and the effect was really bad as the color was awfully dull. An ambulance appeared in the film turned to be green colored etc………