Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966)

A struggling country singer (Ferlin Husky) in the backwoods of Tennessee receives word that he has inherited a casino in Las Vegas when his uncle dies. When he arrives in Las Vegas to receive his inheritance, he finds he's inherited a debt ridden dive. Directed by Arthur C. Pierce (WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET). The TV show THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES debuted in 1962 and ran for 8 years. Its success didn't go unnoticed by Hollywood, thus we got LAS VEGAS HILLBILLYS! It's a 90 minute movie that would run an hour if all the musical numbers were cut. Its cliche ridden screenplay has the audience always a few steps ahead of what's happening (or going to happen) on the screen. What can one say other than it's every bit as inane as its title suggests. The two female leads are the 1950s sex bombshells Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. That they're even in this movie lets you know where there careers ended up by the mid 1960s. With Richard Kiel, Don Bowman, Billie Bird, Bill Anderson, Wilma Burgess, Connie Smith and Louis Quinn.