I''m watching Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

cue the line readings for 120 posts.

That is my favorite movie. My favorite characters are Casey and Roxanne.

Cynthia Myers was just stupendously pretty.

She certainly was, r3. Cynthia Myers has passed on since then. She died over a year ago. I loved her portrayal of Casey Anderson.

Casey: Could I Just Have One Of Your Dolls?

Roxanne: Not before it could be dangerous.

Bump.

THIS IS MY HAPPENING AND IT FREAKS ME OUT!

Still hard to believe that the script was written by, of all people, Roger Ebert.

Is it on TV right now? Which channel?

It was showing while I was in the Navy in San diego. this nasty superior petty officer called me Super Woman!

Barbara Harris?

Dolly Read was wonderful as Kelly.

Dolly Read's accent was so on and off. But the whole thing was a riot.

Damn, Michael Blodgett was hot. Too bad what happened to his character in this crazy flick.

You're a groovy boy. I'd like to strap you on sometime.

I liked a lot the soundtrack of this movie. Very, very melodic. Nice music. There is also a tender lesbian scene which works out well. However, don't expect too much from this movie. It is interesting though, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

It can best be described as a Playboy cartoon version on acid of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, with girl rockers instead of actresses/models.

For R16

[quote]It was showing while I was in the Navy in San diego. this nasty superior petty officer called me Super Woman!

Did you tell him "You shall taste the black sperm of my vengeance!"?

R18, thank you! You are very sweet. I like it!

However from this soundtrack, i love the instrumental parts the most.

I Need You So Very Much/Checkmate composed by Stu Phillips as well is for me the best touch of this soundtrack

Below i sent you a link with this track. When you click the link, you will find the track i'm referring to at the end of the page and not at the beginning. It writes OST/Stu Phillips - I Need You So Very Much (Checkmate) (From Original Soundtrack "Beyond The Valley). You can listen it for free. (Of course you may already have the soundtrack, so in that case, i guess you won't be bothered!)

Friendly kisses!

Oh yes, of course I have the soundtrack CD! Trivia: Lynne Carey, daughter of Days Of Our Lives star Macdonald Carey, provided the rich singing voice of Kelly in the film. For complicated legal reasons I still don't get, they had to use the vocal tracks of a different, inferior singer for the soundtrack album. Disappointing, as I'd been wanting to get my hands on these songs for decades.

Doesn't this end with one of the girls giving a blowjob to a gun? Which is then fired into her mouth?

R21, I have the soundtrack CD as well but it has both versions, the one used on the original soundtrack album and the Lynn Carey vocals.

Yes, r22 but Roxanne was asleep while Z-Man puts the gun in her mouth and she wakes up screaming then Z-Man pulls the trigger. Splat!!!

I am SO beyond watching "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."

I'll take HALF A MILLION DOLLARS, man!

More like "Half a million dolluhs!"

I want to change my name to Petronella Danforth.

I wished that Roxanne would have fought off Z-Man and run off in the sunset with Casey.

Bump.

I never knew Michael Blodgett was Meredith Baxter's third husband. He sure was pretty, even into his old age.

Marcia McBroom is no longer in the business. She is a schoolteacher these days.

Well, R32, it's not like she was much of an actress, pretty as she was. Just a Playboy model.

But she does have that wonderful line, "It doesn't have a HEAD!!!!"

As I recall the gay characters had unhappy endings. That may have been par for the course at the time but it takes away a lot of the otherwise campy enjoyment the movie provides.

True, r34.

What movie is the equivalent to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Stylistically, it's more like Myra Breckenridge, which was also made by 20th Century-Fox around the same time.

Sort of, R38. But if you've ever seen any other Russ Meyer films, you'd see that it's bigger-budget version of the kind of thing he did before.

I don't think there is any movie equivalent to this one - not even ROCKY HORROR.

I caught this one late night on cable TV. I was shocked by the lesbian scene (wasn't that considered risque by 1971 standards)? Any movies with equivalent gay-male scenes from that era?

There were lesbian love scenes in films like THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE (1968) and foreign films like THERESE & ISABELLE (1968).

I wished that the love scene between Erica Gavin and Cynthia Myers would have been longer. My two cents.

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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls trailer

Erica Gavin web site

Great movie to watch while high.

Casey and Roxanne

Michael Blodgett had a very weird face.

Hot head soul brother Randy Black is so fucking hot in this. His bulge rules.

Phyllis Davis was very pretty

It was a satire.

This is what Erica Gavin (Roxanne) looks like today.

I love this movie! It's sort of like Ebert wrote an insane comedy, but no one told the actors, so they play it completely straight.

Makes VOTD seem as good as Citizen Kane

Valley of The Dolls, Beyond The Valley of The Dolls, and Myra Breckinridge would be the perfect triple feature.

Bump.

[quote] Still hard to believe that the script was written by, of all people, Roger Ebert.

I've seen better writing and acting in movies he hated.

Casey and Roxanne are in love...

Sweet talkin ccccccCandy Man!

R39 THE BIG CUBE with Lana Turner.

Horrific & hysterically funny.

The narration at the very end is pretty funny. Sure beats the lame pre-closing credits character updates that frequently scroll by.

He had a hot bod but Michael Blodgett's face brings to mind Vince Rockland and... Rue McLanahan.

Episode 305: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

I can never sit through it, it's so dull and amateurish.

Well, jump ahead to the end, the last few minutes are hilarious.

It's no "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens."

dD meets Cynthia Myers from "Beyond The Valley of The Dolls [1950-2011]

SHUT-INS with Erica Gavin

Bump.

Lynn Carey - Sweet Talkin' Candyman

[quote]Marcia McBroom is no longer in the business. She is a schoolteacher these days.

I adored McBroom as Pet. She had some of the best lines.

She certainly did, r71.

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