Spinout [Blu-ray]

Overview

Elvis plays a rock & roll singer who becomes an auto racer in this tuneful adventure. When not singing and driving, he is tangling with oodles of pretty girls.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/29/2023
UPC:	0810134942660
Original Release:	1966
Rating:	NR
Language:	English
Time:	1:33:00
Sales rank:	14,692

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Elvis Presley	Mike McCoy
Deborah Walley	Les
Diane McBain	Diana St. Clair
Dodie Marshall	Susan
Shelley Fabares	Cynthia Foxhugh
Jack Mullaney	Curly
Will Hutchins	Lt. Tracy Richards
Warren Berlinger	Philip Short
Jimmy Hawkins	Larry
Carl Betz	Howard Foxhugh
Cecil Kellaway	Bernard Ranley
Una Merkel	Violet Ranley
Frederic Worlock	Blodgett
Dave Barry	Harry
Victoria Carroll	Award Beauty
Nancy Czar	Platinum Beauty
Hosh Harding	Bit Man
Inga Jacklin	Brunette Beauty
Jay Jasin	Race Announcer
Deanna Lund	Redhead Beauty
Jo Ann Medley	Blonde Beauty

Technical Credits

George Kirgo

Theodore J. Flicker

Norman Taurog	Director
George Kirgo	Screenwriter
Theodore J. Flicker	Screenwriter
Joe Pasternak	Producer
J. McMillan Johnson	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Take Elvis Presley and put him into a plot involving music, race cars, and girls, and you'd have a winning formula at the box office in 1966 -- that's the easiest way to explain Spinout (and, for that matter, Speedway, made a couple of years later) to anyone who wasn't around at the time. The movie actually functions as a pop-culture artifact on several levels: it's the next-to-last film production of musical/musical-comedy specialist Joe Pasternak (whose career went back to the 1920s) -- but the screenplay was co-authored by director/satirist Theodore J. Flicker; the cast includes '50s TV veteran Will Hutchins, future Emmy-winner Carl Betz (cast alongside his longtime TV daughter Shelley Fabares, once again playing his daughter), and veteran performers Cecil Kellaway and Una Merkel; and the movie shows off Elvis using an array of decidedly up-to-date equipment in his band, including a cool-looking 12-string guitar and a double-necked instrument that just might be the first use of such a guitar onscreen in a feature film. Oh, and the presence of some great second-unit material -- essentially all of the racing sequences -- only enhances the value of an otherwise fairly routine, if complicated, romantic comedy/musical. The latter aspect includes an operetta-like plot involving mismatched romantic couples, a father who wants the hero as an employee but not as a son-in-law, and a daughter who feels differently. It's all lighthearted enough so that anyone with the patience will likely love this picture as unassuming entertainment. Serious Elvis Presley fans can add a star to its potential appeal, and Hollywood mavens a half-star.