The Las Vegas Hillbillys

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. The 1967 sequel film Hillbillys in a Haunted House soon followed with a similar cast.

The Las Vegas Hillbillys
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Arthur C. Pierce
Written by	Larry Jackson
Produced by	Larry Jackson
Starring	Jayne Mansfield Mamie Van Doren
Cinematography	William De Diego
Music by	Dean Elliott
Distributed by	Woolner Brothers
Release date	1966 (1966)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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

Plot

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

• Ferlin Husky as Woody
• Jayne Mansfield as Tawny
• Mamie Van Doren as Boots Malone
• Don Bowman as Jeepers
• Billie Bird as Ma
• Bill Anderson as himself
• Wilma Burgess as herself
• Roy Drusky as himself
• Sonny James as himself
• Duke of Paducah as himself
• Del Reeves as himself
• Connie Smith as herself
• Robert V. Barron as Donald
• Louis Quinn
• Richard Kiel
• John Harmon
• Helen Clark
• Bennett King
• Tony Posey

See also

• List of American films of 1966
• List of films set in Las Vegas

External links

• The Las Vegas Hillbillys at IMDb
• The Las Vegas Hillbillys at AllMovie
• The Las Vegas Hillbillys at the TCM Movie Database
• The Las Vegas Hillbillys at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films