The Las Vegas Story
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Time Out says
A minor RKO gem showing all the preferences of its then owner Howard Hughes (aeroplanes, brunettes, breasts and disenchanted heroes). Jane Russell, with amused detachment, plays a singer returning to Las Vegas with wealthy but despicable husband Price in tow, and picking up with her erstwhile lover, hunky Mature. Initially the script relies on innuendo-laden repartee and a couple of wonderful numbers from Hoagy Carmichael. But then a man is murdered, the pace changes, and the film charges into a superb action climax with a helicopter swooping through deserted hangars and Mature making a fifty-foot leap (to save Jane, of course). It all finishes with a perfunctory nod toward family values (by marrying off an irrelevant young couple), but the film wears its intentions on its sleeve with the final shot: Hoagy looks first at the seductive Russell, then winks at us as he sings, 'My resistance is low...'Author: HM
Release details
UK release:
1952
Duration:
88 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Art Director:
Albert S D'Agostino, Feild Gray
Cast:
Jay C Flippen, Brad Dexter, Hoagy Carmichael, Vincent Price, Victor Mature, Jane Russell
Songs:
Harold Adamson, Hoagy Carmichael
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