| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | |
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| Directed by | Russ Meyer |
| Screenplay by | Roger Ebert |
| Story by | Roger Ebert Russ Meyer[1] |
| Produced by | Russ Meyer |
| Starring | Dolly Read Cynthia Myers Marcia McBroom Phyllis Davis Erica Gavin John LaZar Michael Blodgett David Gurian |
| Cinematography | Fred J. Koenekamp |
| Edited by | Dann Cahn Dick Wormel[1] |
| Music by | Stu Phillips |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 109 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $900,000[2][3] or $2.09 million[4] |
| Box office | $9 million[5][2] |
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American satirical[6][7] musical melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, Phyllis Davis, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, Erica Gavin, and David Gurian. The film was directed by Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert from a story by Ebert and Meyer.[8]
Originally intended as a sequel to the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was instead revised as a parody of the commercially successful but critically reviled original. Beyond met a similar fate; critics initially panned it, but it became a box office success. The film developed a cult following in subsequent decades and earned some critical reappraisal for its satirical and metafictional elements.[9]
- ^ a b c d e Beyond the Valley of the Dolls at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ a b Ebert, Roger (April 2, 1972). "Five years of criticism". Roger Ebert .com. Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ King of the Funny Skin Flicks by Roger Ebert. Archived 2021-01-22 at the Wayback Machine Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p256
- ^ "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on September 10, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
- ^ Geraghty, Lincoln; Jancovich, Mark, eds. (2008). The Shifting Definitions of Genre: Essays on Labeling Films, Television Shows and Media. McFarland. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-786-43430-5.
- ^ Kendrick, James (2009). Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema. SIU Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-809-32888-8.
- ^ "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (December 16, 2018). "The A to Z of Russ Meyer". Filmink.