| The Las Vegas Hillbillys | |
| Director: | Arthur C. Pierce |
| Producer: | Larry Jackson |
| Starring: | Jayne Mansfield Mamie Van Doren |
| Music: | Dean Elliott |
| Cinematography: | William De Diego |
| Distributor: | Woolner Brothers |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.