Frankie Avalon is a stock car racer and that's all he wants to be. Caught between two women, strait-laced Annette Funicello and sex-obsessed Julie Parrish, he has other problems: arrogant Fabian, competitor on the track and for Funicello; moonshiner Harvey Lembeck, who wants him to run for him; and a couple of revenue agents who threaten him with six months in prison for the one run he unwittingly did unless he helps them put away Lembeck. Plus someone is trying to kill him.
Not all of these issues are resolved, but those that are are done so in a surprising and interesting way. It wasn't the shoddy goods I expected when I saw William Asher directed and co-wrote, but kept my attention all the way through. Even Lembeck, in a straight role, is good, and the attitudes on view are not those of men who grew up under the Production Code.
Not all of these issues are resolved, but those that are are done so in a surprising and interesting way. It wasn't the shoddy goods I expected when I saw William Asher directed and co-wrote, but kept my attention all the way through. Even Lembeck, in a straight role, is good, and the attitudes on view are not those of men who grew up under the Production Code.