"The Las Vegas Story" unhappily teams Jane Russell with a 'beautiful hunk of man' (Victor Mature) in a poor romantic-triangle crime story, unfortified by the Nevada gambling capital backdrop...
The plot is about a former café singer Jane who has been wed to a New York investment broker (Vincent Price). Jane - with a shady past - is unwilling to stop at Las Vegas, because years before, when she had been a singer at the downtown Last Chance Club, she fell in love with Mature of the U.S. Air Force who went overseas without asking her to wed him... So she married Price in a state of hasty emotional reaction...
It is not long before Price has accumulated a huge gambling debt, and he is later accused of stealing his wife's $50,000 diamond necklace to pawn and get back the eventual insurance equivalent... None other than local police officer Mature comes to Price's opportune rescue, making it easily seen that he still loves Jane... When she is kidnapped by Bradford Dexter, the actual guilty person, Mature becomes crazy and chases Dexter across the desert via a helicopter...
The sleazy picture ends with Price turning out to be wanted back in New York on embezzlement and grand theft charges, which leaves Jane free to remain in Vegas, to take back her old singing job, divorce Price, and revive her old relationship with Mature...
In the course of the picture Jane sung 'I Get Along without You Very Well' and 'My Resistance Is Low.' Much more effective as musical-interlude relief from the tedious plot is Hoagy Carmichael's number, 'The Monkey Song.'
The plot is about a former café singer Jane who has been wed to a New York investment broker (Vincent Price). Jane - with a shady past - is unwilling to stop at Las Vegas, because years before, when she had been a singer at the downtown Last Chance Club, she fell in love with Mature of the U.S. Air Force who went overseas without asking her to wed him... So she married Price in a state of hasty emotional reaction...
It is not long before Price has accumulated a huge gambling debt, and he is later accused of stealing his wife's $50,000 diamond necklace to pawn and get back the eventual insurance equivalent... None other than local police officer Mature comes to Price's opportune rescue, making it easily seen that he still loves Jane... When she is kidnapped by Bradford Dexter, the actual guilty person, Mature becomes crazy and chases Dexter across the desert via a helicopter...
The sleazy picture ends with Price turning out to be wanted back in New York on embezzlement and grand theft charges, which leaves Jane free to remain in Vegas, to take back her old singing job, divorce Price, and revive her old relationship with Mature...
In the course of the picture Jane sung 'I Get Along without You Very Well' and 'My Resistance Is Low.' Much more effective as musical-interlude relief from the tedious plot is Hoagy Carmichael's number, 'The Monkey Song.'