The Las Vegas Hillbillys
Introduction '''''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 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
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