But maybe you haven’t seen the movie, featuring the King as a race car driver named Lucky Jackson hoping to take the checkered flag at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. You’ve probably heard the song a million times, from Golden Knights games to TV commercials. “The movie introduced much of the world to Dean Martin’s ‘Ain’t That a Kick in the Head.’ Odds are, though, it isn’t as good as you remember, but it does serve as a remarkable time capsule of those casinos.” But, according to the Review-Journal’s Chris Lawrence, the picture itself might not be. The stories around the movie - the Rat Pack filmed when they weren’t busy performing at the Sands and enjoying everything Vegas had to offer - are legendary. three figures so synonymous with Vegas they have streets named after them - lead a crew of old Army buddies who reunite to rob five casinos in a single night. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. The Review-Journal’s Norm Clarke wrote in 2016, “It’s best remembered today as a window into how the city looked in the mid-50s.” Set largely at the Sands hotel-casino, the movie tells the story of a cowboy whose luck improves whenever he holds the hand of a dancer played by Charisse. “Movie theaters, along with the film’s production company, became so concerned about the word ‘hell’ being lit up on marquees that they purposely changed the spelling of the film’s title.”ĭancing legend Cyd Charisse, who occasionally headlined in Las Vegas with husband Tony Martin, stars in this musical comedy, which held its world premiere at the El Portal theater on Fremont Street.

And according to Tanya Vece of the Boulder City Review, that was intentional. Yes, the movie’s name is spelled with one L, instead of two. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, who married shortly after the film’s premiere, help the FBI investigate a counterfeiting scheme at Las Vegas casinos during the annual Helldorado Days celebration (now known as Las Vegas Days). If you are looking for a movie that actually captures all the Las Vegas Valley has to offer, here are a few of the many films that actually were shot in the valley. For example, it’s an in-depth look at Elvis Presley’s rise from Deep South carnivals to the bright lights of Las Vegas and beyond.īut it’s not a film that was shot in Vegas. The new movie “Elvis” is a lot of things. A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department cruiser is outfitted for filming for the movie 'The Hangover' on the Las Vegas Strip on Sept.

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