Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The film revolves around Kelly MacNamara (Dolly Read), Casey Anderson (Cynthia Myers) and Petronella Danforth (Marcia McBroom), three college girls who join a Hollywood scene of debauchery, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
9 July 1941, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
14 February 1926, Brooklyn, New York, USA
17 July 1940, Port Arthur, Texas, USA
25 November 1937, Redwood City, California, USA
24 January 1919, Oklahoma, USA
26 August 1908, Alaska, USA
24 January 1946, Québec, Canada
6 August 1947, New York City, New York, USA
26 May 1949, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
September 29, 2016
Like Valley of the Dolls, Beyond is a howler of a movie, with the crucial difference being that Meyer and Ebert intended it that way.
February 25, 2008
The very definition of self-conscious camp, certainly not Art but much too intelligent for Trash.
May 09, 2005
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.
February 14, 2007
Russ Meyer does mainstream, kind of.
November 07, 2016
Besides being an addictively entertaining guilty pleasure from beginning to end, it's that rare movie that transcends its opportunistic origins to become a true singularity; a movie like no other.
June 24, 2006
With his first movie for a major studio, Meyer simply did what he'd been doing for years, only bigger and better.
October 27, 2016
Russ Meyer's ultra-lurid 1970 magnum opus, infamously penned by a young Roger Ebert, remains a towering achievement. What it achieves, however, is difficult to define.
November 19, 2002
A psychedelic wow that serves up the free love, plunging necklines, androgynous boys, and lusty lezzies of the era with a narcotized abandon.
June 15, 2008
A funky, wonky, and entertaining jolt into the decade that bred free loving, hipster rockers, and hippies...
December 17, 2007
This trashy, gaudy, sound-stage vulgarity about low life among the high life is as funny as a burning orphanage.
December 17, 2007
An outrageously entertaining cult classic, and probably one of the most bizarre movies ever produced by a major Hollywood studio.
