Reception
Jailhouse Rock premiered on November 8, 1957 at Loews State Theater in Memphis, Tennessee. It opened nationally on November 18, and peaked at number 3 on the Variety box office chart, as well as reaching number 14 for the year at the box office. The film had an original budget of $400,000 (equivalent to $3,309,953 in 2012 dollars), and it grossed $4 million (equivalent to $33 million in 2012 dollars) at the box office. In 1957 Presley was ranked the 4th leading box office commodity in the film industry. According to Variety, by 1969, the gross income of the movie in the United States and Canada was comparable to that of The Wizard of Oz.
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