The back-slapping, affectionate, uncomplicated friends meet up with a sixth friend - bar owner John (George Dzundza), and hen drink lots of beer at his place, and boisterously kid with each other.Conscientiously, Mexican police official Vargas gets involved in the investigation.While returning alone on the dark street to the Mexican hotel, Susan begins to attract he attention of Mexican males.Next door, paralyzed invalid sister Blanche Hudson (Joan Crawford), the former movie star who had suffered a mysterious, career-ending car accident (for which guilt-ridden Jane was blamed but never charged), was a recluse -- wheelchair-bound, semi-imprisoned and secluded in the sparsely-furnished upstairs bedroom.BackgroundJailhouse Rock (1957)is a prison-related, rags-to-riches musical-drama (and biopic parable of a predictable downfall and recovery) from director Richard Thorpe.