Speedway (1968)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.1/10   

Director:

Norman Taurog

Guionista:

Phillip Shuken (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 junio 1968 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Musical

Frase comercial:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Tax | Stock Car | Speedway | Tax Return | Bridal Boquet

Comentarios de los usuarios:

SPEEDWAY (Norman Taurog, 1968) **1/2

Reparto

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

También conocida como:

A todo escape (Chile) [es]

Duración:

94 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Finland:S | Sweden:11 | UK:U | USA:G | West Germany:o.Al.

Locaciones de Filmación:

Lowe's Motor Speedway - Speedway Parkway, Concord, North Carolina, USA

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

'Nancy Sinatra' sings the song "Your Groovy Self" in this movie. The song was also included in the soundtrack LP, making it the first and only song by another artist to be released on an official Elvis Presley record.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Elvis first parks his red car near the trailer, the car is only up to the grass line and you can't even see it in the next scene when he opens the trailer door and enters. However upon leaving the trailer, you see the red car as he exits and it is now completely on the grass, right next to the trailer.

Citas:

Steve Grayson: I'd like to break you in half!
Kenny Donford: If you did, you'd have two very short friends.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Pulp Fiction (1994)

Banda de Sonido:

There Ain't Nothing Like a Song

SPEEDWAY (Norman Taurog, 1968) **1/2

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).