Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1970 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Russ Meyer

Written By:
Roger Ebert
Richard Warren Lewis
Irving Wallace

Actors:
Dolly Read ..... Kelly Mac Namara
Cynthia Myers ..... Casey Anderson
Marcia McBroom ..... Petronella Danforth
John Lazar ..... Ronnie 'Z-Man' Barzell
Michael Blodgett ..... Lance Rocke
David Gurian ..... Harris Allsworth
Edy Williams ..... Ashley St. Ives
Erica Gavin ..... Roxanne
Phyllis Elizabeth Davis ..... Susan Lake
Harrison Page ..... Emerson Thorne
Duncan McLeod ..... Porter Hall
James Iglehart ..... Randy Black
Charles Napier ..... Baxter Wolfe
Henry Rowland ..... Otto
Princess Livingston ..... Matron
Wayne Maunder ..... Mike Barrett
Marianne McAndrew ..... Maggie Russell
Philip Carey ..... Elmo Duncan
Jay C. Flippen ..... Luther Yerkes
Edy Williams ..... Faye Osborn
Lyle Bettger ..... Frank Griffith
Jackie Gayle ..... Norman Quandt
Ron Randell ..... Merle Reid
Charles Drake ..... Sgt. Kellogg
John Carradine ..... Sean O'Flanagan
Harold J. Stone ..... Judge Upshaw
Tom Selleck ..... Phil Sanford
James Iglehart ..... Clay Rutherford
John Sarno ..... Jerry Griffith
Stanley Adams ..... Irwin Blair

Synopsis:

This film is a sequel in name only to Valley of the Dolls (1967). An all-girl rock band goes to Hollywood to make it big. There they find success, but luckily for us, they sink into a cesspool of decadence. This film has a sleeping woman performing on a gun which is in her mouth. It has women posing as men. It has lesbian sex scenes. It is also written by Roger Ebert, who had become friends with Russ Meyer after writing favorable reviews of several of his films.

When Easy Rider rewrote the box-office rulebook in 1969, Hollywood scrambled to catch up - and 20th Century Fox noticed that one particular independent filmmaker was seeing impressive returns from tiny investments. So what would happen if he was given a decent budget and the run of a Hollywood studio and told to make the ultimate Russ Meyer film? Well, this is the result: an initially X-rated cult camp classic about an all-female rock band trying to parlay Midwestern success into a Hollywood contract with the aid of a hefty inheritance. But will they be able to maintain their trademark apple-pie wholesomeness under their new manager, the notorious Ronnie 'Z-Man' Barzell? Take a wild guess. Co-scripted by film critic Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a merciless satire of Hollywood and the music business, a no-holds-barred psychedelic thrill-ride that gleefully stirs sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, fashion, lesbianism, transvestism and Nazis into one of the most riotously unhinged mainstream films ever made.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 January, 2025.