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Fast-talking Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday, 1940) is absolutely captivating as Kim Halliday, the daughter of a deceased career gambler who joins her father’s former business partner to run a Vegas casino. Russell's unflappable confidence is a fine match for the swagger of Fernando Lamas as Victor Monte, a rival club owner who vies for Kim’s affections—and her casino. There’s nothing quite like the neon lights of Sin City captured in high-definition VistaVision and vibrant Technicolor, which appear here in gorgeous documentary footage of the Strip; like most studio productions of the era, however, the bulk of this musical comedy was shot on producer Paramount’s lot.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1955 | 85 min. | USA | Technicolor | English | Not Rated | 4K DCP
DIRECTED BY: Robert Pirosh
WRITTEN BY: Robert Pirosh, Jerome Davis
WITH: Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria DeHaven