Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing “King of the Nudies” Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties style, under the spell of a flamboyant producer—whose decadent bashes showcase Meyer’s trademark libidinal exuberance. Transgressive and outrageous, this big-studio version of a debaucherous midnight movie is an addictively entertaining romp from one of cinema’s great outsider artists.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2003 featuring screenwriter Roger Ebert
- Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actors Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page, John LaZar, and Erica Gavin
- New interview with filmmaker John Waters
- Episode from 1988 of The Incredibly Strange Film Show on director Russ Meyer
- Q&A about the film from 1992 featuring Meyer, Ebert, LaZar, and Read; and actors David Gurian, Charles Napier, Michael Blodgett, and Edy Williams, with host Michael Dare
- Interview with cast members from 2005
- Above, Beneath, and Beyond the Valley; Look On Up at the Bottom; The Best of Beyond; Sex, Drugs, Music & Murder; and Casey & Roxanne, five documentaries from 2006 about the making of the film, featuring the cast and crew
- Screen tests
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Glenn Kenny and excerpts from a 1970 account in the UCLA Daily Bruin of a visit to the film’s set
New cover by Jim Rugg
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2003 featuring screenwriter Roger Ebert
- Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actors Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page, John LaZar, and Erica Gavin
- New interview with filmmaker John Waters
- Episode from 1988 of The Incredibly Strange Film Show on director Russ Meyer
- Q&A about the film from 1992 featuring Meyer, Ebert, LaZar, and Read; and actors David Gurian, Charles Napier, Michael Blodgett, and Edy Williams, with host Michael Dare
- Interview with cast members from 2005
- Above, Beneath, and Beyond the Valley; Look On Up at the Bottom; The Best of Beyond; Sex, Drugs, Music & Murder; and Casey & Roxanne, five documentaries from 2006 about the making of the film, featuring the cast and crew
- Screen tests
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Glenn Kenny and excerpts from a 1970 account in the UCLA Daily Bruin of a visit to the film’s set
New cover by Jim Rugg
Cast
- Dolly Read
- Kelly Mac Namara
- Cynthia Myers
- Casey Anderson
- Marcia McBroom
- Petronella Danforth
- John LaZar
- Ronnie “Z-Man” Barzell
- Michael Blodgett
- Lance Rocke
- David Gurian
- Harris Allsworth
- Edy Williams
- Ashley St. Ives
- Erica Gavin
- Roxanne
- Phyllis Davis
- Susan Lake
- Harrison Page
- Emerson Thorne
- Duncan McLeod
- Porter Hall
- Jim Iglehart
- Randy Black
- Charles Napier
- Baxter Wolfe
- Henry Rowland
- Otto
- Princess Livingston
- Matron
- Stan Ross
- Disciple
- Lavelle Roby
- Vanessa
- Angel Ray
- Girl in tub
- Veronica Erickson
- Blonde date
- Haji
- Cat Woman
- Karen Smith
- Redhead
- Sebastian Brook
- Art director
- Bruce V. McBroom
- Photographer
- Ian Sander
- Boy in tub
- Koko Tani
- Assistant
- Samantha Scott
- Cynthia
- Tea Crawford
- Kathy Page
- Heath Jobes
- Makeup man
- John Logan
- Escort
- Susan Reed
- Fashion model
- Robin Bach
- Gay boy
- Ceil Cabot
- Mother
- And the Strawberry Alarm Clock
Credits
- Director
- Russ Meyer
- Produced by
- Russ Meyer
- Screenplay by
- Roger Ebert
- Story by
- Roger Ebert
- Story by
- Russ Meyer
- Associate producers
- Red Hershon
- Associate producers
- Eve Meyer
- Fashions by
- De Gra of California by David Hayes
- Makeup supervision
- Dan Striepeke
- Makeup
- Bill Buell
- Hairstyling
- Edith Lindon
- Property master
- Syd Greenwood
- Director of photography
- Fred J. Koenekamp
- Art directors
- Jack Martin Smith
- Art directors
- Arthur Lonergan
- Set decoration
- Walter M. Scott
- Set decoration
- Stuart A. Reiss
- Special photographic effects
- Jack Harmon
- Assistant to the producer
- Manny Diez
- Film editors
- Dann Cahn
- Film editors
- Dick Wormell
- Unit production manager
- Norman Cook
- Assistant directors
- David Hall
- Assistant directors
- C. E. Dismukes
- Sound
- Richard Overton
- Sound
- Don Minkler
- Music
- Stu Phillips
- Music supervision
- Igo Kantor
- Additional music
- William Loose
- Vocal coordination
- Lynn Carey
- Music editor
- Robert Simard
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