Mr. Evans: Now, you've just been told that you're not graduating tomorrow. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
Danny Fisher: You said I'm not graduating. OK, that's it. Now what do you want?
Mr. Evans: I once had a son, Danny. He lived 13 years. Some hoodlums jumped him one night, and he died.
Danny Fisher: I'm sorry. But what's that got to do with me?
Mr. Evans: Because you have all the earmarks of being a hoodlum.
Danny Fisher: Aw!
Mr. Evans: A hoodlum or a hustler, whatever you want to call it.
Danny Fisher: This isn't principal talk.
Mr. Evans: Well, the more difficult the student, the more I try to lean over backwards.
Danny Fisher: Listen, Mr. Evans. We moved into this neighborhood 3 years ago. In that 3 years that I've been going to school here, I've shined shoes and dusted people off in a barbershop. I've done towel duty in 4 different men's rooms. I've stacked chairs and bottles and swept the floor up of every joint on Bourbon Street. It's gotten so I look longer at a dame with clothes on than one without. I'm not a hoodlum. But I am a hustler. I've had to be for a very simple reason - my old man. You see, sir, my mother was killed in an accident about 3 years ago. Well, after that, it might as well have gotten the old man too, because he took himself right out of the lineup. He quit cold. He lost the drugstore that he owned, he lost the house, and then finally what few little jobs he's had since. You know, maybe I could've liked school, Mr. Evans. But every time I wanted to play ball, I had to go to work. Somebody had to. Anyway, now I'm through. I'm through.
Mr. Evans: I wasn't aware that you worked after school, Danny.
Danny Fisher: It's not the working after school, Mr. Evans, it's the working before. It's been nice talking to you.
[
shakes hands with Mr. Evans]
Mr. Evans: I'm sorry I said what I did, Danny.
Danny Fisher: That's all right. My life's a long way from over yet. And you never know. You may be right.
Edited into
The Story of Elvis Presley (1977)
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances (2007) (V)
- Clip shown
Referenced in
Les diplômés du dernier rang (1982)
- Poster visible in the room under the lecture hall.
Elvis Gratton: Le king des kings (1985)
- Bob wants his jumpsuit red like Elvis on its soundtrack album cover. Poster in living room.
1992 MTV Movie Awards (1992) (TV)
- Referenced during the opening montage
"Beck: Lockpojken (#1.1)" (1997/I)
- A poster for this movie can be seen when the third body is found.
Elvis (2005) (TV)
- poster seen
The Game Plan (2007)
- Poster seen on the wall
A la diestra del cielo: Silvio, un cantaor rockero (2007)
- Poster shown and movie mentioned.
"Bob Gratton, ma vie/My Life: La sauce à Linda - 2e partie (#2.9)" (2008)
- Bob forced to swear on its soundtrack album cover.
"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #18.30" (2010)
- Russell Crowe mentions that it is his favorite Elvis Presley film
Featured in
This Is Elvis (1981)
Elvis in the Movies (1990)
- trailer
Elvis: The Great Performances - Center Stage, Volume One (1990) (V)
- clip shown
Elvis in Hollywood (1993)
- clip
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970) (2000) (TV)
The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part I: 1956-1961 (2002) (V)
- Elvis film
Elvis at the Movies (2002) (V)
- One of the subjects of the film
Indie Sex: Teens (2007) (TV)
- A clip is shown
"The O'Reilly Factor: Episode dated 20 February 2008" (2008)
- Clips of this film are shown during the interview with Richard Walter about the film career of Elvis Presley.
