Despite attracting more than 40 million visitors a year, the city of Las Vegas in Nevada is in desperate danger of collapsing. Not for a want of money, but due to dwindling water resources. This documentary charts the efforts of a small team of eco-engineers who are trying to harness and adapt the methods of beavers to solve the problem of water shortages in North America's western states.
A shock gives "Sach" Jones the ability to visualize numbers before they come up and he and the other Bowery Boys, "Slip" Mahoney, Chuck and Myron, head for Las Vegas to win some money for their landlady. There, "Sach" wins a fortune at roulette, which convinces crooks Tony Murlock, Sam, and Oggy that he has a system. Using Carol LaRue as bait, they try to get his system and failing, they frame him on a phony-murder charge to blackmail him.
From well-heeled mobsters and glamorous showgirls to fantastical mega-casinos and dazzling displays of neon, Las Vegas is the world's most famous monument to reckless abandon and unbridled excess. Produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the city, this program documents the history of America's most outrageous playground. Find out why it is a city that understands what Americans want most when they run away from home.
Rare Spanish trash here from the director of the Paul Naschy flick NIGHT OF THE HOWLING BEAST, Miguel Iglesias Bonns. Originally titled LA ISLA DE LAS VIRGENES ARDIENTES (ISLAND OF THE WILD VIRGINS), this one has topless island Amazonians kicking ass, and like the ad says, "Every man who touched them died in an orgy of blood!"
The greedy relatives of an amnesic and paralytic 45 years old millionaire try him to recover his memory by any means. Surreal look at a family's attempts to shock, bully, frighten, coach, and cajole Antonio Cano into regaining his memory and his management powers after an auto accident. He's middle-aged, wealthy, the leader of a family corporation. After the accident he can't remember his Swiss bank account numbers, can't sign documents, and can't lead his board of directors.
Las Vegas with Trevor McDonald uncovers the secret life of Sin City, the ultimate sunny place for shady people, a city that grew from nothing by offering the forbidden. This two-part series focuses not on the tourists who flock to the bright lights of Vegas, but on those who call the gambling mecca home: those who live in the shadows, those who have won big and lost big, and those who might fare better living somewhere far, far away from the pull of the neon lights. “I’ve been to this city several times before,” says Trevor, “But I never discovered where fantasy town collided with reality, and I never looked too closely at the people who live here and what Vegas does to them.”