Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

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"The world is full of them - the super-octane girls who are old at twenty . . . If they get to be twenty!"

Girl-group madness from the director of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. Dolly Reed, Marcia McBroom and the incredibly foxy Cynthia Myers journey from Hicksville to Hollywood, hoping to make it with their rock trio The Carrie Nations.

They fall prey to the “business” as well as their own inflated ambitions in what is arguably Meyer’s most purely entertaining, pop-culture sex-fest (co-written by film critic Roger Ebert.) With additional tunes by The Strawberry Alarm Clock.

All Russ Meyer fans know this is among the sleaze king's sleaziest. The Carrie-Nations, a lively all-girl rock band,  meet enigmatic rock mogul Z-Man Barzel in LA and plunge headlong into his wild world of drugs, parties, and kinky sex. The film's final scenes are tasteless and incompetent to an almost perversely funny degree.

TRIVIA NOTE
The jovially shifty character Porter Hall (Duncan McLeod) is named after a familiar 1940s bit-player, usually seen as jovially shifty characters in the likes of His Girl Friday and Double Indemnity.

Region 1 (USA) DVD

Region 2 (UK) DVD