Viva Las Vegas

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

6.2(157)19641h 25m

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Lucky Jackson arrives in Las Vegas with his car literally in tow ready for the first Grand Prix — once he has the money for an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he'll lose both race and girl, problems complicated by rivalry from womanizing fellow racer Elmo Mancini.

Director

George Sidney

Budget

$1.0M

Revenue

$9.4M

Joe Dante on VIVA LAS VEGAS

Featurette

Cast

Elvis Presley

Lucky Jackson

Ann-Margret

Rusty Martin

Cesare Danova

Count Elmo Mancini

William Demarest

Mr. Martin

Nicky Blair

Shorty Fansworth

Robert Aiken

Driver (uncredited)

Don Anderson

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Larry Barton

Son of the Lone Star State (uncredited)

Toni Basil

Dancer (uncredited)

Herman Boden

Casino Patron (uncredited)

William Burnside

Son of the Lone Star State (uncredited)

Carl Carlsson

Juggler (uncredited)

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Reviews

2 reviews

DanDare

5y ago

6.0

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...

John Chard

6y ago

7.0

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 ...