The Happy Hooker [DVD]

Joey Heatherton, Martine Beswick, Lynn Redgrave, Adam West and Larry Storch - How can you possibly go wrong with 70's camp of these colossal proportions? Well, somehow it's wrong on EVERY level. Three horrible movies, painfully bad acting, no storylines to speak of, nothing at all to do with the best-selling books, the worst of 70's fashion style, no comedy, no drama, no camp value, and the greatest travesty - no real sex or nudity to keep you in your chair! WTF! I have a high tolerance for the ridiculous, and even I fast-forwarded through all three flicks in spite of loving Joey Heatherton and Martine Beswick. Insulting on every level - avoid this collection of garish crap at all costs.

I seen this dvd when it came out and forgot the plot and brings back the past of good times of good b movies great to see it again don't let the name fool you there's not much nudity in it it's more of what it's about is why it got an r rateing

This is not nearly as fun as "The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington". This is a minimally entertaining sitcom-like biography of Xaviera Hollander similar to the Brady Bunch to dumb down the humor.

In the early to mid-1970's a novel hit the best sellers list called "The Happy Hooker." It was an autobiography written by Xaviara Hollander in the 1970s and was published by Dell Publications. It became a Number One Best Seller. The Happy Hooker: My Own Story

Xaviara Hollander came from Holland. She was the daughter of a doctor. For a time when she first came to the United Stes, she was working as a translator for the United Nations in New York City.

She had been through some failed relationships and soon found herself self-employed and later running a luctrative escort service eventually having a serice on Park Avenue in New York City in the late 1970's.

She had hired a technician to install a series of hidden cameras in the various rooms of her establishment so she can monitor as to what was going on in the rooms in case something should go wrong between the girls and the customers requiring her to intervene.

Unknown to Xaviara Hollander, the technician, however, had installed a transmiter in the cameras so that he could pick up on the transmissions and look in on what was going on.

Thigs backfired as the TV sets of the people in the area were also picking up on the transmissions on the UHF fequency.

Teh police received a number of complaints and located the source of the transmissions. The New York Police Department then raided the establishment of Xaviera Hollander. She later was even deported from theUnited States since she was not a citizen.

This made the media, and as a result, Xaviera Halander wrote a book which was published by Dell Publications in the 1970's and became a Number One Best Seller.

The book sarts with Xaviara's place being raided by the police, and then she goes back to how it all began back in her early days in Holland.

The movie version that stared Lynn Redgrave as Xaviara Hollander was turned into a comedy and got paned by the critics at the time for not being true to the book.

The two sequels made were also comedies: "The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington" staring Joey Heatherton as Xaviara Hollander as she and her lawyer played by 'George Hamilton take on a convervative U.S. Senate Committee on morale decency and family values, which aslo has Ray Walston as one of the senators. The other sequel was "The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood" stars Martine Beswick as Xaviara Hollander who takes on the Hollywood machine pitting her wits against Hollywood bad guys played by Aam West and Richard Deacon.

The novel "The Happy Hooker": The Happy Hooker: My Own Story

As I said,, the book was a bes seller, but the critics did not like the movie at all. It was not true to the book at al. It was turned into a comedy, which the book was not. The two movies that followed were out and out camp comedies.

This movie was a story about a woman who breaks up with her fiance and finds herself in an American city sleeping with many different men. She deciedes instead of doing it for free she should start charging for her services. She eventually becomes a madame and ends up in jail. This is the basis premise for the movie. There is not much else to this movie. I found it to be funny. It was not meant to be a comedy. I think it was made in the seventies. It has all sorts of cheese ball outfits. It is the perfect stereotype of a bad 1970 era movie. The style reminds me of Shaft.