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Viva Las Vegas

Elvis is at the wheel but Ann-Margret drives him wild!

6.2 / 10

85 minutes

1964-02-08

English

US

Actors :

Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair, Robert Aiken, Don Anderson, Larry Barton, Toni Basil, Herman Boden, William Burnside, Carl Carlsson, Ruth Carlsson, Regina Carrol, Steve Carruthers

Description

Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.

Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

5/16/2024, 3:22:24 PM

Viva the King and Annie. Elvis Presley movies, by and large, aren't very good. Thirty one feature length pictures he made, of which arguably only half a dozen are jointly watchable and entertaining. But even the stinkers have fans, and not just fans of the King in general, also cinema fans happy to embrace the cheese and kind of just run with it. Yet to totally dismiss Presley's input into the ...

DanDare

DanDare

6/23/2021, 3:58:49 PM

Most Elvis movies were the product of a conveyor belt. Quickly written and produced and Elvis was not stretched as an actor or singer. Viva Las Vegas does not stretch this formula but is fun, thanks in part due to the chemistry between Elvis and Ann Margret. Elvis plays race car driver Lucky Jackson who is working as a waiter in Vegas so he can pay for a new engine. He plans to take on ar...