MARK WAITE / PVT Angela Rosiek, Sen. Kensington in the movie "Lady Magdalene's," shakes hands with J. Neal Schulman, director, during a screening at Alice Eychaner's home last Thursday. In the background, enjoying the laugh, is Al Jones, who starred as a television show host. Advertisement

A year ago, film crews took over Pahrump resident Alice Eychaner's house, converted it into a brothel for a movie shoot and did extensive filming at the Pahrump Nugget Casino and the Front Sight Firearms Academy.

Last Thursday, residents as well as members of the cast got a chance to see how it all came together during a 109-minute screening of the second cut of the movie "Lady Madalene's," at Eychaner's home.

The bizarre plot was patterned by director Neal Schulman after the takeover of the former Mustang Ranch brothel by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for back taxes.

The IRS takes over a Pahrump brothel, named Lady Magdalene's, with Nichelle Nichols, the former sultry star on Star Wars as Lt. Ahura, playing the vivacious madam in this movie, and tries to keep the brothel afloat.

Eychaner's home provided the interiors for the brothel; crews filmed the outside of the Pahrump Valley Winery to simulate the exterior.

Scenes alternated between Front Sight, where terrorists, including Schulman, were training for an al-Qaida plot, and the brothel. A male IRS agent is the third person to be handed the assignment to manage the brothel, resisting the come-ons of the girls.

One of the prostitutes is eventually murdered by a terrorist intruder posing as a customer. The murderer is eventually shot by the madam in a final scene filmed at Desert View Regional Medical Center shortly after the hospital opened.

In what appeared as a serious technical problem, the film crew didn't seem to compensate enough for the bright, desert sunlight in the outdoor scenes.

Much of the fun however was involved in identifying members of the community who played roles in the film, like Angela Rosiek, the former hotel manager at the Pahrump Nugget Casino, who played Sen. Red Kensington conducting an investigation of the IRS agent in scenes filmed at the Nye County Courthouse. Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo, playing himself, is seen consoling the brothel madam after the murder of one of her girls. KHMP Channel 30/62 television host Andrew Alberti is seen as the doctor confirming the death of the murderer. An actor playing Osama bin Laden is seated in the examining room.

Most scenes were filmed over 19 days in Pahrump, except for a chase scene at Hoover Dam, after Schulman said film crews were initially told they wouldn't be allowed to film there.

An innocuous shot of the outside of the FBI building in Las Vegas earned a stern rebuke from a federal agent, he said. But in Pahrump they seemed to have free rein to film where they wished.

Pahrump residents are able to poke fun at their community and its lack of respect. The movie ends with KPVM-TV Channel 41 anchorman Tom Slaughter, playing his real life role, commenting on television how he wanted to be on national TV but ended up in Pahrump.