Flaming Star was a great movie and proved Elvis could act, the problem was Tom Parker didn't want him to learn his craft as an actor he wanted him to make those stupid theme movies and sell records so he could make more money, if Elvis had thrown himself into acting full time he would have been a great actor and music would have been pushed back. The sad ending to this story is that Barbara Streisand wanted Elvis to play the Kris Kristofferson John Norman Howard role, she was a fan of Elvis and knew this movie would show him as an actor not just a fat aging rock star and his career would rise again, Tom Parker talked Elvis out of it, Elvis died less than a year later. Flaming Star is Elvis best movie no doubt, it still rings true about racial injustice today forty years later.
Review of Flaming Star
