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12 June 1968 (USA) moreTagline:
Smooth, fast and in high gear!Plot:
Poor bookkeeping saddles stock car driver Steve Grayson with a huge bill for back taxes which hampers his ability to continue racing competitively. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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SPEEDWAY (Norman Taurog, 1968) **1/2 more (20 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Elvis Presley | ... | Steve Grayson | |
| Nancy Sinatra | ... | Susan Jacks | |
| Bill Bixby | ... | Kenny Donford | |
| Gale Gordon | ... | R.W. Hepworth | |
| William Schallert | ... | Abel Esterlake | |
| Victoria Paige Meyerink | ... | Ellie Esterlake (as Victoria Meyerink) | |
| Ross Hagen | ... | Paul Dado | |
| Carl Ballantine | ... | Birdie Kebner | |
| Poncie Ponce | ... | Juan Medala | |
| Harry Hickox | ... | The Cook | |
| Christopher West | ... | Billie Jo | |
| Beverly Powers | ... | Mary Ann (as Miss Beverly Hills) | |
| Richard Petty | ... | Himself | |
| Buddy Baker | ... | Himself | |
| Cale Yarborough | ... | Himself |
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Racing sequences was filmed with 10 cameras. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: In all the scenes at the hangout, there is a band playing, yet none of the times are any of the guitars plugged in. moreQuotes:
Mary Ann: [Referring to Kenny] You mean you let him take care of your money?Steve Grayson: Why not? I like to live dangerously.
Mary Ann: Does that go for girls too?
Steve Grayson: That goes for everything?
Mary Ann: Honey, I'm going to leave the driving to you.
[They kiss]
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This is basically a neat reworking of IT HAPPENED AT THE WORLD’S FAIR (1963) by the same director, no less: Bill Bixby replaces Gary Lockwood as Elvis’ scoundrel sidekick (and results in being quite amusing), Nancy Sinatra stands in for (and easily upstages) Joan O’Brien – Ol’ Blue Eyes’ daughter, a singing star in her own right, makes a better-than-usual match for The King – and, instead of one Asian child, we get six homeless kids and their ex-racer father, etc. Besides, the songs are also above-par and rockier than usual and even Sinatra gets her own “impromptu” number.
The instances of crazy comedy – usually brought on by Elvis’ frustration with I.R.S. ”agent” Sinatra’s doggedness – are also present here and anticipate the next, and last, Presley/Taurog collaboration, LIVE A LITTLE, LOVE A LITTLE (1968); among the highlights are Elvis punching through a hotel-room door and knocking out a passerby and then punching his racing rival in the hotel lobby who consequently slides on his back all the way into an empty elevator! The racing-car scenes themselves are okay – a milieu with which Elvis was quite familiar, having already played similar roles (or so I hear) in both VIVA LAS VEGAS (1964) and SPINOUT (1966).