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Summary: Get it for the music
Review: As a movie it is terrible, but if you are a fan of 1950's country and hillbilly music it is great to see the performances. The first half is typical b-movie silliness but the second half has almost all music. Jayne and Mamie are just a bonus, not the main reason to watch this.
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Summary: A TOE-TAPPIN' GOOD TIME!!
Review: At first glance this seemed like empty-headed hokum but the more I watch it, the more I like it. Being a fan of 50s and 60s Americana, I love these movies and this has FOUR things in it's favor. Jayne Mansield and Mamie Van Doren!! The minimal plot has 60s country star Ferlin Husky inherit a run down casino in Vegas. He and bar maid/singer Mamie Van Doren fix up the place and put on a show - and fall for each other in the process. But the main attraction here, as in "ROAD TO NASHVILLE," is the music. Great country/pop from the mid 60s with stars like Sonny James, Del Reeves, Bill Anderson, Connie Smith and more! Bouffant hairdos and pompadors aplenty plus those neat sequined outfits and cheesy smiles.There is country humor worthy of "HEE HAW" courtesy of 'The Duke Of Padukah', and sets that would make a young John Waters proud. Great 60s heads like "77 Sunset Strip's" Louis Quinn and a young Richard "Jaws" Kiel. Both Jayne and Mamie sing and dance. The film transfer on the DVD is fine. The color is good. No extra features...I'm not complaining. It's 'B' movie drive-in fare and a great companion to that Saturday afternoon six-pack for all us baby-boomers! Watcha waitin' fer?? Buy It!
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Summary: Lack of blonde ambition!
Review: I only gave this movie 2 stars because of its 2 stars: Mamie Van Doren and Jayne Mansfield. Without the presence of these 2 bombshells, the film is a complete bomb. As a piece of film history, it has its place. As entertainment, it's atrocious, even for the time. Still, as I've said, it does have Mamie & Jayne! The male actors are laughable and the plot virtually non-existent, although you can say that about a lot of modern films too. Only get this film if you're passionate about its 2 lusty blonde actresses. Otherwise, get a life!
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Summary: Do Not Buy This Tape
Review: I went through the original tape and two replacements...with the same problem in all the tapes. The audio is terrible and completely goes out half way through the thing. The video is washed out with skipping and scratches. The degradaded color reminds me of how a roll of my film turned out after it sat in the glove box during a Las Vegas summer day. In three places it appears that the original film used for transcribing broke, copying was stopped to put the thing back together and started again. All three tapes I received have exactly the same defect.They will refund me now. As soon as I mail back the three tapes;...I will order the [other] version of this movie that they sell. I really enjoy seeing the people entertain whom I could only listen to during my childhood.
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Summary: Noooo! Make it stop!
Review: It seems like a good idea... 'Las Vegas Hillbillys,' a kind of a 'Krush Groove' for the possum pie and moonshine set, starring Jayne Mansfield and Mamie van Doren. Duelling blonde bombshells, right? Ah, no. Van Doren is looking sad and puffy in this film as a 'tough' but disinterested saloon singer, longing for better days when she was straining angora sweaters and scratching out the eyes of good girls everywhere. Jayne Mansfield sports a series of tentlike grandma dresses of the sort later found adorning the fashionable Weezie Jefferson, reading from cue cards with a kind of breathy, clueless abandon which is probably quite fetching when she's not dressed in a potato sack. One can imagine her on her rendezvous with destiny, thinking, 'Oh no, we're about to slide underneath that semi truck! But at least I won't have to think about 'Las Vegas Hillbillys' anymore.' Between the two of them, they don't get more then seven minutes' screen time. This movie is ostensibly a musical, in the sense that there is music in it, consisting of fifteen- or twenty-minute blocks of bad lip-synching (in an 85-minute film) which do nothing to advance the plot, such as it is. Watch for Bill Anderson's all-KGB-agent backup band. 'We are American high-fashion models.' I gave this movie a whole two stars because they *can* sing, after all... give them a break. Richard Kiel makes a surprise appearance as, can you guess? a thug. He actually has dialogue in this film, of a sort, and in watching his performance you really get a sense that unenthusiastically bunny-hopping between cable cars in 'Moonraker' represented the pinnacle of his acting career. The plot: Woody Weatherby contemplates stardom, inherits a debt-ridden saloon from his uncle, goes to Vegas, tries to run the place, has a twenty-minute nap. In the last ten minutes Aunt Clem magically fixes everything and starts a cream pie fight. Van Doren kisses Ferlin Husky, thereby completing her descent to the innermost circle of Hades. The End. There was supposedly a sequel to this, 'Hillbillys in a Haunted House,' but I frankly am afraid to watch it. Be my guest.
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Summary: Noooo! Make it stop!
Review: It seems like a good idea... 'Las Vegas Hillbillys,' a kind of a 'Krush Groove' for the possum pie and moonshine set, starring Jayne Mansfield and Mamie van Doren. Duelling blonde bombshells, right? Ah, no. Van Doren is looking sad and puffy in this film as a 'tough' but disinterested saloon singer, longing for better days when she was straining angora sweaters and scratching out the eyes of good girls everywhere. Jayne Mansfield sports a series of tentlike grandma dresses of the sort later found adorning the fashionable Weezie Jefferson, reading from cue cards with a kind of breathy, clueless abandon which is probably quite fetching when she's not dressed in a potato sack. One can imagine her on her rendezvous with destiny, thinking, 'Oh no, we're about to slide underneath that semi truck! But at least I won't have to think about 'Las Vegas Hillbillys' anymore.' Between the two of them, they don't get more then seven minutes' screen time. This movie is ostensibly a musical, in the sense that there is music in it, consisting of fifteen- or twenty-minute blocks of bad lip-synching (in an 85-minute film) which do nothing to advance the plot, such as it is. Watch for Bill Anderson's all-KGB-agent backup band. 'We are American high-fashion models.' I gave this movie a whole two stars because they *can* sing, after all... give them a break. Richard Kiel makes a surprise appearance as, can you guess? a thug. He actually has dialogue in this film, of a sort, and in watching his performance you really get a sense that unenthusiastically bunny-hopping between cable cars in 'Moonraker' represented the pinnacle of his acting career. The plot: Woody Weatherby contemplates stardom, inherits a debt-ridden saloon from his uncle, goes to Vegas, tries to run the place, has a twenty-minute nap. In the last ten minutes Aunt Clem magically fixes everything and starts a cream pie fight. Van Doren kisses Ferlin Husky, thereby completing her descent to the innermost circle of Hades. The End. There was supposedly a sequel to this, 'Hillbillys in a Haunted House,' but I frankly am afraid to watch it. Be my guest.
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Summary: Mmm Hmm. A heaping helping of country goodness
Review: Listen up ya'll. If you enjoy a movie with good down home mannerisms, easy speaking rural folk, and a plot that's thinner than a Southern fried possumn tail, than this here moving picture is just right for you. Shucks. You get the same two leading men from the Hillbillies in the Haunted House movie, plus Mamie Van Doren. Jayne Mansfield may have clocked in at a whole 10 minutes in this film. She's saved by our kindly southern folk after she breaks down on the highway, she sings a song in a dream sequence type setting, then she stands at the roulette wheel and that looks like stock footage. To watch the film the whole way through is as painful as putting your nose to the lips of a large mouth bass. The country songs and 'stars' that perform are enough to curdle grandma's buttermilk. Whew boy, if you like being tortured by honest good time cinema, step right up and go to Vegas with 60's country stars that are as loosely knit as a scarecrow in a tornado.
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Summary: Don't Buy this Video....
Review: The color is washed out...the print is very grainy...this may the worst copy of any film,that i have ever bought....the soundtrack is hard to hear...do not purchase this version of this film...a better copy of this film may be worth it,if you are a country music fan...this movie was shot in a studio & not a very good studio...there is less than a minute of 1966 Vegas in this film.
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