Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Name: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music
Released: June 17, 1970
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Cynthia Myers, David Gurian, Dolly Read, Edy Williams, Erica Gavin

1970

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: June 17, 1970 | X

Starring: Cynthia Myers, David Gurian, Dolly Read, Edy Williams, Erica Gavin, Harrison Page, John Lazar, Marcia McBroom, Michael Blodgett, Phyllis Davis

Summary: Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.

Director: Russ Meyer

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Music

Rating: X

Runtime: 109 min

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Clayton Dillard

While Roger Ebert’s screenplay contains overt jabs at Hollywood’s culture of exploitation, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls cannot be called anything but sincere regarding its penchant for buxom female anatomy. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

With his first movie for a major studio, Meyer simply did what he'd been doing for years, only bigger and better. That's to say, he turned the homely story of an all-girl rock band's rise to fame under their transsexual manager into a delirious comedy melodrama, soused in self- parody but spiked with dope, sex and thrills. Read full review

J. Bryan Lowder

The madcap, sexy, borderline-surrealist film is impossible to summarize, but calling it a fast-and-loose Hollywood fantasia on A Midsummer Night’s Dream would not be totally inaccurate. Read full review

Dave Kehr

It's quite funny at times, and the expert direction is never less than vigorous, though in retrospect it seems to have marked the end of Meyer's most appealing period—his comic spirit was more expansive before he learned the word camp. Read full review

Empire Kim Newman

Not a sequel to the bland film of Jacqueline Susann’s trashy best-seller, this is more like a demented remake, alternating modish psychedelia with deliberately square moralising. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Any movie that Jacqueline Susann thinks would damage her reputation as a writer cannot be all bad. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls isn't—which is not to say it is any good. Read full review

Gene Siskel

As bad as Ebert’s screenplay is, Meyer’s direction is just as choppy. The film also looks ugly. Read full review

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Jul 18, 2020

Critic Roger Ebert wrote this campy, melodramatic, horror thriller musical. If that sounds like a lot you have no idea what this movie is like. This in name only sequel centers around a girl rock group who goes to Hollywood and is thrust into the seedy underbelly of sex, drugs, rock n roll,Critic Roger Ebert wrote this campy, melodramatic, horror thriller musical. If that sounds like a lot you have no idea what this movie is like. This in name only sequel centers around a girl rock group who goes to Hollywood and is thrust into the seedy underbelly of sex, drugs, rock n roll, porn stars, tranny killers, lesbians, etc. It's like a thousand lifetime movies blended together but with a rockin soundtrack. Mostly the movie works as an ultimate guilty pleasure but it does seem to just transcend film altogether. With beautiful cinematography and quick cut editing it's a wild ride that holds up pretty well. Originally Rated X and now NC-17 if this sounds like your jam go for it otherwise keep on steppin.

Budget: $1M
Box Office: $40M

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