This documentary on the nightlife of Las Vegas was filmed primarily at the Topicana and Dunes Hotels, respectively, in 1962-63. Musical numbers performed by the film's stars aside, "Spree" also includes scenes of gambling casinos, cock fights and boxing.
Cinematography
Ne-soaked Vegas before it became a theme park.
Production
Cock fights and boxing—pre-MPAA documentary freedom.
Director
Walon Green
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures Vegas at its most dangerously glamorous—before corporate sanitization turned the Strip into a mall.
Mitchell Leisen directed this after Hollywood exile; Walon Green would later write The Wild Bunch. Strange bedfellows.
US
