A mecca for superstars, chorus-girls, hoteliers, hookers, brides, grooms and gamblers, Las Vegas, Nevada, is celebrating its 75th birthday. Founded at a desert land-auction in 1905, this city of half-a-million now lives by gambling and showbiz; it is the pleasure capital of North America, probably the world.
The Mayor of Las Vegas, the ' King and Queen', and friends of such notorious Nevada heroes as Bugsy Siegel or Howard Hughes , are joined by Liberace Tony Bennett Neil Sedaka
Anthony Newley and others in this star-spangled portrait of America's adult Disneyland.
Photography DAVID PHIG
Film editor ANDREW WILLSMORE Producer ROBERT DENTON