Speedway (film)

Speedway
Directed by Norman Taurog
Robert Goodstein (Ass't)
Produced by Douglas Laurence
Written by Phillip Shuke
Starring Elvis Presley
Nancy Sinatra
Bill Bixby
Music by Jeff Alexander
Cinematography Joseph Ruttenberg
Editing by Richard W. Farrell
Distributed by MGM
Release date(s) June 12, 1968 (1968-06-12)
Running time 94 min.
Language English

Speedway is a 1968 action film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a racecar driver and Nancy Sinatra as his love interest.

Scenes were shot at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. The film features guest appearances by several of the top stock-car—better known now as NASCAR -- drivers of the day.

This would be the final "formula" musical film of Presley's career. His later films would be less musical and more adult in tone.

Although the film was completed in the early summer of 1967, it was not released in theatres until the spring of 1968. It was a box-office hit, placing at #40 on the Variety weekly national box office list.

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