Norman Taurog's sixth Elvis outing "Spinout" is pretty insipid as romantic musical comedies go. The chief attraction in this lackluster epic should have been the combination of the King of Rock'N Roll and Ole Blue Eyes' daughter Nancy Sinatra. Elvis plays race car driver Steve Grayson and he is on a winning streak when he runs afoul of the Internal Revenue Service with Nancy cast as IRA agent Susan Jacks and perennial Lucille Ball co-star Gale Gordon as her boss Mr. Hepworth. "Plunders of Painted Flats" scenarist Phil Shuken penned this entirely forgettable saga and the sparks don't fly between the singers as it did when Elvis romanced Ann-Margret in "Viva Las Vegas." Nothing about Elvis' racer nor anything about Nancy's pretty IRS Agent are interesting. The characters who stand out in this inferior film is Elvis' crooked manager Kenny Donford (played with panache by Bill Bixby) who qualifies as the scum of scum, single-parent Abel Esterlake (William Schallert) with six little girls, and Steve's mechanic Birdie Kebner (Carl Ballantine of "MacHale's Navy"). The biggest surprise of this otherwise marginal Elvis movie is that he loses the climactic race at the Charlotte Speedway after he wrecks his car and his crew rebuilds it at the last minute. Several well-known racers appear in cameos.
