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The Las Vegas Hillbillys

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The Las Vegas Hillbillys
Theatrical release poster
Directed byArthur C. Pierce
Written byLarry Jackson
Produced byLarry Jackson
StarringJayne Mansfield
Mamie Van Doren
CinematographyWilliam De Diego
Music byDean Elliott
Distributed byWoolner Brothers
Release date
  • 1966 (1966)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Las Vegas Hillbillys is a 1966 American country music comedy film directed by Arthur C. Pierce and starring Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren.[1] The 1967 sequel film Hillbillys in a Haunted House soon followed with a similar cast.

The film was featured in an episode of The Canned Film Festival in the summer of 1986.

Plot

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Woody Woodrow, a country bumpkin whose family makes and sells moonshine in backwoods Tennessee, inherits a Las Vegas casino and plans to turn it into a country and western bar. The rundown establishment is WAY out of town, but country music is a novelty they figure they can successfully promote.

On the plus side, buxom Boots Malone (Van Doren); who is smarter than she appears; signs on as hostess and business manager. On the minus side, gangsters to whom the previous owners owed a sizeable amount of money keep coming around to collect; backed by huge "enforcer" Richard Kiel.

Woody eventually manages to talk well-known country singers into appearing there; and pays off the debt.

Woody then orders his staff to shower the gangsters with pies on their way out the door.

Cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966), retrieved 2022-11-01
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