They may not remember this lurid bank-robbers-masquerading-as-bikers melodrama, but we do.
The credits helpfully noted: “Also starring Caesars Palace as Caesars Palace.”Īrriving in theaters in May 1969, “Where It’s At” had a four-month head start on the second filmed-at-Caesars movie: “Hell’s Angels ’69,” which didn’t even make the hotel’s list of on-property movie projects. (Except the folks in the Caesars marketing department.)īut that major motion picture’s title, “Where It’s At,” symbolized the response to, and the role played by, Las Vegas’ first ultra-luxurious themed resort.Ī generation-gap comedy (remember, this was 1969), “Where It’s At” starred TV “Fugitive” David Janssen as the casino boss and Robert Drivas as his college-student son. You probably don’t remember the first major motion picture, as they described them in those days, to shoot at Caesars Palace. Thanks to the undeniable magic of the movies, however, we can relive the glory that was Rome - the Vegas version, anyway - in all its gaudy Technicolor over-the-topness. The Caesars Palace of today looks, and feels, far different from the one that brought a new cachet to the Las Vegas Strip when it opened its doors in 1966. Not unless you count Dom DeLuise’s Emperor Nero from Mel Brooks’ 1981 “History of the World: Part I.” (Which we do, but we’ll get to him later.) And more than ready for its close-up from the very start.īut no, Caesar never lived at Caesars Palace.
