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Speedway

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Elvis is the champion!
Review: "Speedway" is not too bad for being one of Elvis' last 5 pictures. I like the restaurant "Hangout" because the booths are cars. Elvis and Nancy Sinatra blend together in "Speedway". Bill Bixby is Elvis' "buddy-buddy" manager, who thinks he's a chick magnet, like so in "Clambake". He's only there for comic relief. Elvis is the true star. I like the fight scene where Elvis punches the man who plays Paul, a rival stock car driver, into an open elevator. "Speedway" still proves Elvis rocks!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fun Nostalgia
Review: Big fan of Nancy Sinatra and Elvis Presley. No, it's not Oscar worthy but a fun look at the 60's as it REALLY was! I think Nancy and Elvis work well together. The songs are catchy, and Nancy is SOOOOOOOOOOO cute!! I still have a crush on her. Some very funny moments including a man being slugged into an elevator and the crying waitress. C'mon, lighten up! Have fun with this movie.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: "Viva Las Vegas 2"? Not really...
Review: By 1967, enough was enough with the light fluff comedies starring Elvis Presley. Throughout the 60s, Elvis was being humiliated making bad movies like TICKLE ME and HARUM SCARUM while The Beatles and Bob Dylan were changing the music scene.

In SPEEDWAY, Elvis plays a singing race car driver (for the third time!) who gets into trouble with the IRS. He falls in love with Nancy Sinatra, and that's about it for the plot.

The only saving grace is that the cast is better than average. It's quite interesting to see Elvis act alongside "Lucy" regular Gale Gordon. The songs are a little better than average, especially the quite good "Let Yourself Go".

Again, it's not that bad. It's a definite improvement over CLAMBAKE, but a far cry from JAILHOUSE ROCK or KING CREOLE.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A cool movie!
Review: ENTERTAINING film with a GREAT looking cover! LETTER-BOXED and restored! I love reading all of the negative reviews here on AMAZON...shows it takes all kinds of people to make a world. These films were made for ELVIS fans and to be ENTERTAINING...I have no idea how someone could even compare ELVIS and NANCY SINATRA to BEN and JENNIFER LOPEZ?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A cool movie!
Review: ENTERTAINING film with a GREAT looking cover! LETTER-BOXED and restored! I love reading all of the negative reviews here on AMAZON...shows it takes all kinds of people to make a world. These films were made for ELVIS fans and to be ENTERTAINING...I have no idea how someone could even compare ELVIS and NANCY SINATRA to BEN and JENNIFER LOPEZ?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Bring your groovy selves on home and let yourselves go!
Review: Everything about "Speedway" is as groovy as Elvis always performs. I just love the way Nancy Sinatra performed the song "Your Groovy Self" and the way she moved around as she sang. Nancy's really hot! Bill Bixby was quite hilarious. Elvis' song "Let Yourself Go" is super cool. The scene where Elvis sang "Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby" to the little girl was kind of cute. And the sounds of those roaring engines in the race were very much electrifying. Some of the plots really did show off Elvis' real-life self as the generous and giving person he was. He buys for a friend and his 5 little girls a brand new station wagon, also helps out a troubled waitress with her upcoming wedding. Unfortunately Bixby's character messes everything up for Steve Grayson (Elvis), by betting Steve's money on the horses, instead of paying for those things Elvis bought for his friends, and besides makes an outrageous tax claim form for Steve, with deductions such as perfumed record albums and [money]for air? Oh yes! Lucille Ball's "Mr. Mooney" was kinda funny too and was excellent for the role of the head IRS agent R.W. Hepworth. When I first saw this movie in the theater I cracked up at the "He's Your Uncle, Not Your Dad!" sequence. It was funny it was cool. Just everything about "Speedway" is superbly exciting. But what else could you expect out of a movie that starres the king of rock and roll! And lets not forget Nancy Sinatra who is more than just the icing on that cake. It's not everyday you see such a gorgeous tax collector. I give this film a perfect A+. It's just loaded with the stuff! "Speedway" is an honest to goodness must see.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Just Good Clean Fun !!
Review: I saw Speedway at the drive-in in the summer of 1968 ! so it holds a special place in my mind.Not a bad movie .. and a few good songs.Let Yourself Go featured in this movie was also featured in the 68 Elvis tv special.Nancy Sinatra looks very hot in this movie,and Elvis as always is his cool self.A good family film !!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ok guys, This is a groovy, cool and sexy movie
Review: If Austin powers were really in the groovy 60's. he'd be in this movie. with that said, yeah Elvis was embarrassed here and there but you can't get over how incredibly cool Elvis is in nearly every scene. Sinatra is a bit miscast cus Elvis blows her out of the water. but she adds a little somethin sweet here and there but Elvis is still the victor.

Bill Bixby you guys!! he is great in this movie as Elvis's manager and he is funny from start to finish and his chemistry with Elvis is the best i've seen from an Elvis movie (Ever) not overestimating.
"Your time hasen't come yet baby" is great and "let yourself go" is very cool and Elvis is enjoying himself as if he knows he's making cool look good again since pappa sinatra.
this is one of if not the best Elvis movie during the last 3 years of his films next to a dramatic and very surreal Change of Habbit.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A light hearted fun Elvis movie....
Review: If you haven't seen this movie I would recommend you give it a try! Elvis is very funny in this movie his great sense of humor really shines through. The story line is also very close to how generous he was in his own life. The song performed "Let your self go" is very entertaining. I also enjoyed watching the chemistry between Elvis and Nancy!
The only reason I didn't rate this 5 stars was because I personally didn't enjoy all the racing scenes. Defiantly in my all time top ten favorite Elvis movies!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: The Pits!
Review: No, not Brad and Jen but Elvis and Nancy living it large. God almightly, this really is the pits. Elvis may look good, not too large, but it's really awful. Nancy Sinatra would not get a sniff of a record or movie contract if she had not been the daughter of big Frank. She is truly awful. She can't sing worth a lick. Elvis just looks embarrassed by the whole mess.

The songs are awful, some daft song about the IRS(!) but the worst is Your Groovy Self by the aforementioned Nancy, out of tune, looking terrible and, well, just awful.

This would have disappeared into oblivion if it had not been for big E who just sleepwalks through this mess.

Truly awful.


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