Richard Fleischer repeatedly turned down Dino De Laurentiis' overtures to direct the film. He ultimately relented when he realized that the best way to make the film was to shoot it straight and tell the story as truthfully as he could.
In High Stakes Holiday, two sharp-witted sisters (Madeleine Violet McGraw) on vacation in Las Vegas find themselves caught in the middle of a high-stakes heist and must team up with a jaded ex-MI6 agent turned security guard (Koji) to outsmart a cun
