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...five days, the Government lawyers questioned Stuart, trying to support their charges that the defendants had frozen out such companies as Halsey, Stuart from security issues. Then Government Attorney Henry V. (for Vincent) Stebbins abruptly announced that he was about finished with Stuart. Medina was flabbergasted. It was "nothing short of criminal," he said, for the Government to end its examination without bringing out facts which he had been "dying to hear for a year and a half." Snapped the judge: "This is the most tremendous waste of time I ever heard of. I just cannot stomach...
Once again, in quiet desperation, aging President Vincent Auriol took top hat in hand, went begging from party to party in search of a cabinet...
Howard Hughes' latest effort, The Las Vegas Story, has the same old Hughesian ingredients: Jane Russell's bust, Vincent Price's portrayal of a rich degenerate, a luxurious locale. (The Fabulous Hotel in Las Vegas), and a spectacular chase sequence near the finish. Only this time Victor Mature (not Robert Mitchum) plays the hero, and Hoagy Carmichael has been thrown in for kicks too, along with an incredible diamond necklace rented from Cartier, Inc. The result, as usual, is a preposterously silly picture...
When Jane Russell, an ex-night club singer, and her husband (Vincent Price) arrive at Las Vegas, everything starts happening at once: the necklace disappears, a night-club owner is killed, Mr. Price gets thrown in the clink, Miss Russell is kidnapped, and before long ex-boy-friend Mature is playing cat-and-mouse with the kidnap car in a helicopter over the Nevada desert...
...facial expression by changing her costume as frequently as possible. Mature simply wiggles his ears, whether hanging by his hands from an iron bar twenty feet off the ground or watching singer Russell sulk beside a piano. Hoagy Carmichael looks stupid as a troubadour-hillbilly-cupid type, and Vincent Price looks just plain tired...