Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers, legendary sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic cult favorite, once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first ...more

Legendary cult filmmaker Russ Meyer's outrageous major-studio debut was this delightfully tasteless spoof of all those movies about aspiring ingenues hoping to break into showbiz and discovering the sad price of fame. In this case, the all-girl "Carrie Nations" rock band (Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom) gets more than they bargained for as they inadvertently cause a suicide and end up in a Manson-like massacre at the home of a transvestite record producer (John La Zar). The usual ...more