Really nothing special about this - at all.
Dennis O'Keefe stars in "Las Vegas Shakedown" from 1955, also starring Coleen Gray, and featuring Tomas Gomez, Charles Winninger, Mary Beth Hughes, and Elizabeth Patterson.
O'Keefe plays Joe Barnes, the owner of a Vegas casino. He's tough but fair, and he seems to deal with situations very efficiently. Coleen Gray plays Julie Ray, a schoolteacher who comes to Vegas to write a book.
After their first kiss, Julie, an uptight woman, decides to leave the hotel. On the way out, she overhears that someone plans to kill Joe. She returns to the hotel; ultimately, she and Joe fall in love.
This is the main subplot that has Tomas Gomez out to force Joe to sign the casino over to him, and if Joe dies in the process, too bad.
Another plot involves a woman (Mary Beth Hughes) who has gambled the money her husband was going to use to buy a business; an elderly couple, the Raffs (Winninger and Patterson) on vacation. Winninger is a bank president, so they don't want anyone to know they're in Vegas, lest the town think he's an embezzler.
When there is a discrepancy at the bank, a minor one that Mr. Raff isn't concerned about, Mrs. Raff talks her husband into getting rid of the $15,000 he won by systems betting.
Solid if not exciting performance by O'Keefe, Gray is lovely, and the minor characters are all very well portrayed.
