| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 9,000,000 |
During "The Carrie Nation" performances horns can be heard in the music.
There is no horn section in the band.
When Ronnie shoots Roxanne, blood clearly gushes all over the gun.
In the very next scene when he lays the gun down next to the phone it is spotlessly clean.
Ronnie picks up an extension phone when Kelly is in the middle of dialing her friends for help.
The phones used are 500 series Western Electric business phones.
Because of the way rotary dial phones work, picking up an extension would prevent any phone on the same circuit from being able to dial.
When Ronnie 'Z-Man' Barzell drops Lance Rocke's severed head, it breaks in half when it hits the floor.
During the first party scene, Emerson drops a tray carrying multiple bottles of scotch.
In next shot, floor is covered with broken glass but no spilled liquid.
"Jungle Boy" can still be heard screaming after he is decapitated.
When Ashley is driving Harris home, many of the shots convincingly show it to be night outside, yet in the shot where the Rolls Royce approaches his house, it's clearly day, badly disguised as night.
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 9,000,000 |
Valley of the Dolls was a famously rubbish 1967 relationship drama, dead earnest in its execution. So naturally this 1970 follow-up is a raunchy sex comedy directed by Russ Meyer and penned by the late film critic Roger Ebert.
This is one brassy, sassy, little sexploitation flick that is so bad that it's almost good. (I said "almost" good)"Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" ("BVD", for short) is a pseudo-camp rock-musical/sex-comedy from 1970 that boastfully earned itself an X-rating upon its initial USA release.
This is one brassy, sassy, little exploitation flick that is so bad that it's almost good. (*Note* - I said "almost" good)"BVD" is a pseudo-camp rock-musical/sex-comedy from 1970 that boastfully earned itself an x-rating upon its initial USA release.
In 1970 20th Century Fox released a movie directed by sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer. The result was Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
... just terrible.
The movie is awful because Meyer wasn't a director and Ebert wasn't a screenwriter. Neither was an "artist" at anything.
It took Roger Ebert six weeks to write this masterpiece (precociously conceived and adequately so). Directed by the voyeuristic but not depraved, Russ Meyer, an auteur who created trashy worlds of its own.
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.
