mark.waltz Review of They Came to Rob Las Vegas

They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968)

Only the audience got robbed.....

[2/10 · 6 November 2013]

There's little I can say about this violently bloody action thriller that seems to have slipped out for release and quickly slipped into obscurity except "skip it". Other than the opening shots of a van of criminals riding through San Francisco (obviously an attempt to take on some of the notoriety of the much better "Bullit") and a shot of a bank van disappearing into the desert sands near Vegas, there's little to remember. That is unless you don't count the obviously bad dubbing, the constant shots of Elke Sommer in bed (playing a character obviously playing both ends against the middle), the inappropriate musical score that just never shuts up or the seemingly gay man involved in the attempted heist of the bank van who wears flesh colored pants to make it appear he's naked from the waste down (I later discovered the pants to confirm he wasn't), or the presence of veteran actors such as Lee J. Cobb and Jack Palance. The action is violent and pointless, the plot ridiculous and attempts at comedy boring. There's only brief shots of Las Vegas (with obvious stock footage of many of the famous entertainers of the day appearing there with their names on casino marquees) and the plot doesn't really involve the casinos at all. I can give this one credit for one other thing; It actually made me consider 1982's really bad "Lookin' to Get Out" a bit better, although not by much.