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Las Vegas Hillbillys

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3 star:		(2)
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1 star:		(4)

 

 

This was never meant to win an Academy award. It's simply a fun, classic country filled ho-down film with the intent to showcase some of the better country artists of the sixties. The acting is below average, and I wouldn't want it any other way. That's the charm with these two "Hillbilly" films starring Ferlin Husky. It's nostalgia at it's best, and you can bet the farm-fence that I'll be watching this many times again. Forget the Mamie,and Jayne talk; they were a bonus to this classic clunker. They were never meant to steal the show. Pick up "Hillbillys in a Haunted House" too. That one will do a number on you that you're not likely to forget anytime soon!

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.

Silly fluff to present established and future memorable country singers. If you're not into country music, don't bother with this. I bought it 'cause I'm a Jayne Mansfield's and Mamie Van Doren's body fiend but this movie is a total disappointment and her name is upfront (pun!) just to attract buyers who otherwise would not bother with this "movie" even with Mamie Van Doren added.

This is a very fun and entertaining country music film starring two blond sex godesses, Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. Ferlin Husky stars as Woody Weatherby, a hillbilly from Tennessee who with another outback type friend learns he has inherited a casino in Las Vegas. But when they get there in their run down jalopy, they find the place is a debt ridden dive. Woody and his friend, Jeepers, set out to make the casino/nightclub a big smash! With a little help from Jayne Mansfield who manages the casino concessions and Mamie Van Doren who sings and dances to provide entertainment for the customers. The place starts taking off big time when Woody decides he needs Aunt Clem's good business sense and the fact that she books some of the best country music stars in the business! Includes some high point scenes of Bill Anderson, Del Reeves and Connie Smith to name just a few. This film was never meant to win an Oscar,however, it is a very funny, colorful and rather crazy film with hillbillies, motorcycles, blond sex godesses and country music stars!

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.

The Las Vegas Hillbillies is a terrible bad movie which stars Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren and Ferlin Huskey. It appears to be a low budget film due to the photography, acting and settings. If you are a Jayne or Mamie fan, you will find yourself fastforwarding to their scenes only. One highlight of the film is Ferlin Husky's dream sequence of Jayne singing "That Makes It." Air time of Jayne is very small. Trivia: the Siamese cat in the film, which Jayne is holding, belonged to Jayne's friend May Mann.

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.

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!

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.

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.