The Las Vegas Story is a 1952 American suspense film noir starring Jane Russell and Victor Mature, directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Robert Sparks and Howard Hughes with Samuel Bischoff as the executive producer.

Linda reluctantly returns to Las Vegas by train when her loser husband Lloyd Rollins insists on vacationing there.

Upon checking into the Fabulous Hotel & Casino, Rollins requests a line of credit and Linda discovers that her husband is in some kind of financial trouble, possibly criminal as well, and suspects he is trying to raise money by gambling.

Rollins obtains $10,000 in credit from Clayton, owner of the Last Chance casino, by putting up Linda's necklace as collateral, but he loses it all, gambling.

With a suspect in custody, Hubler returns to the scene of the crime with Linda and has her reenact the steps she took the night before, thereby implicating himself.

[6] Howard Hughes ordered that the credit of writer Paul Jarrico be removed because of his communist affiliations.

But, then, the scriptwriters, Earl Felton and Harry Essex, have not made demands in their loose-jointed, tabloid-tinted fiction for more than the lady gives.

The best to be said on behalf of this hit-or-miss R. K. O. film is that, in throwing side glances at the sap-traps of Las Vegas, it points its own indeterminate moral: patrons proceed at their own risk; the odds are in favor of the house.

It ends with a playful Happy and a divorce-minded Linda working together again and singing a duette with lyrics such as "Keep your distance, my resistance is low", which might explain what this appealing oddball story was all about.

"[14] RKO announced plans to reteam Mature and Russell in Split Second,[15] but neither ended up appearing in that film.