The read
Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Mike Edwards and Danny Burke fly a cropduster, but due to Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitchhike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike cares for a small girl whose father has disappeared.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes25%
Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do.
53 audience votes
Key crew
- Leith StevensOriginal Music Composer
- Si RoseWriter
- Seaman JacobsWriter
- Norman TaurogDirector
Cast
- Elvis PresleyMike Edwards
- Joan O'BrienDiane Warren
- Gary LockwoodDanny Burke
- Vicky TiuSue-Lin
- H.M. WynantVince Bradley
- Edith AtwaterMiss Steuben
- Guy RaymondBarney Thatcher
- Dorothy GreenMiss Ettinger
- Kam TongUncle Walter Ling
- Yvonne CraigDorothy Johnson
- Jacqueline deWitMrs. Johnson (uncredited)
- Kurt RussellChild who kicks Mike at the fair (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
airplaneuniversal exhibitioncrop dustermetrocolor