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Dolly Read (Actor), Cynthia Meyers (Actor), Russ Meyer (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Dolly Read, Cynthia Meyers, Marcia McBroom, Erica Gavin
  • Directors: Russ Meyer
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles: English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Arrow Video
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Jan. 2016
  • Run Time: 225 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B016382X3O
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,463 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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When Easy Rider rewrote the box-office rulebook in 1969, Hollywood scrambled to catch up - and 20th Century Fox noticed that one particular independent filmmaker was seeing impressive returns from tiny investments. So what would happen if he was given a decent budget and the run of a Hollywood studio and told to make the ultimate Russ Meyer film?

Well, this is the result: an initially X-rated cult camp classic about an all-female rock band trying to parlay Midwestern success into a Hollywood contract with the aid of a hefty inheritance. But will they be able to maintain their trademark apple-pie wholesomeness under their new manager, the notorious Ronnie 'Z-Man' Barzell? Take a wild guess.

Co-scripted by film critic Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a merciless satire of Hollywood and the music business, a no-holds-barred psychedelic thrill-ride that gleefully stirs sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, fashion, lesbianism, transvestism and Nazis into one of the most riotously unhinged mainstream films ever made. This special edition also includes the rarely-seen The Seven Minutes (1971), Russ Meyer's Hollywood swansong, an adaptation of Irving Wallace's polemical novel about the absurdities of American obscenity laws.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

  • Limited Edition collection of both of Russ Meyer s Hollywood films (3000 copies)
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  • Standard Definition DVD presentation of The Seven Minutes
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for both films
  • Original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
  • Two commentaries on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls by co-screenwriter Roger Ebert and various actors
  • Sinister Image: Russ Meyer, David De Valle s 1987 interview with the director and his former model Yvette Vickers
  • Introduction to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls by John LaZar
  • Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy
  • Look On Up at the Bottom, with composer Stu Phillips and three members of the Carrie Nations discussing the film's music
  • The Best of Beyond, favourite moments selected by cast and crew members
  • Sex, Drugs, Music & Murder: Signs of the Time, Baby!, a look at the late 1960s culture that spawned Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
  • Casey & Roxanne: The Love Scene, discussed by participants Erica Gavin and Cynthia Myers
  • Screen tests for Michael Blodgett, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page, Marcia McBroom
  • High Definition photo galleries
  • Multiple trailers
  • Reversible sleeve featuring two original artworks
  • Booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Kat Ellinger

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5.0 out of 5 starsThe best piece of exploitation cinema, presented in stunning quality blu-ray
By Dallison on 12 Jan. 2016
Format: Blu-ray
Mark Robson’s Valley of the Dolls (1967) became something of commercial success, despite being generally panned by the critics. Following the murder of Sharon Tate, the film was re-released again in 1969, and once again proved to be a success with audiences. In December 1969, filming began on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), a film that was intended as a direct sequel to Robson’s movie. Jacqueline Susann, the original author of Valley of the Dolls had been approached to write a screenplay, but declined the offer. Instead, director Russ Meyer and film critic Roger Ebert, took on and completed the task in just six weeks. Ebert described it as ‘a satire of Hollywood conventions’ while Meyer leant more towards ‘a serious melodrama, a rock musical […] and a moralistic expose of the nightmarish world of Show Business’.
This film is set around a female band, The Kelly Affair featuring Kelly MacNamara (Dolly Read), Casey Anderson (Cynthia Myers), and Petronella "Pet" Danforth (Marcia McBroom). Along with their manager (and Kelly’s boyfriend) Harris Allsworth (David Gurian) the group set off to Los Angeles to find Kelly's estranged aunt, Susan Lake (Phyllis Davis), who is heiress to a family fortune.
Kelly and her band arrive and are greeted fondly by Susan who informs her that she will be left a portion of her inheritance. However, Porter Hall (Duncan McLeod) a financial adviser to Susan, attempts to discredit the band as general degenerates in order to embezzle the money for himself. Aunt Susan meanwhile introduces Kelly and the band to a connected producer Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell (John LaZar). At one of his flamboyant parties, Z-Man wastes little time in persuading the band to perform, the result of which is a huge success.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsBeyond the pale
By R. J. Lister on 29 Jan. 2016
Format: Blu-ray
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. Valley starred Sharon Tate, who along with four others would be murdered by the Manson family in 1969. The fact that this homicide forms the basis of Beyond’s insane bloodbath ending tells you all you need to know about the approach Meyer and Ebert are taking with this remake/sequel.

Dolly Read plays Kelly, the lead singer of an up-and-coming all-girl pop-rock band, which heads to LA to meet Kelly’s aunt, Susan (Phyllis Davis), and hopefully meet with her $50k inheritance. But Susan’s adviser, Porter (Duncan McLeod), has his eyes on the money and dismisses Kelly and co as kinky hippies. While this battle is waged, the girls live up to Porter’s title, boozing and bonking their way through a series of parties, while their new svengali, Ronnie “Z-Man” Barzell (a lascivious John Lazar), sidelines their existing manager Harris (David Gurian), changes the band’s name, and shamelessly promotes them for himself.

“All uptight about tomorrow and hanging onto yesterday,” moans Randy Black (Jim Iglehart, channelling a low-rent Mohammed Ali); “all that matters is now.” Combining counterculture energy with cheapo raunchiness, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls boldly and ruthlessly satirises the Love Generation.

The story begins with a road trip promising boundless opportunity and free-spiritedness, but ultimately the girls’ desires are parochial and shallow: sex and wealth.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhen Russ went to Hollywood.
By dirk in alty on 23 Mar. 2016
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
This review of Arrows 2 disc set concentrates on the 2nd film THE SEVEN MINUTES which cut short Meyers Hollywood dreams as he was signed on a 3 film deal but was let go after the 2. Now said to have failed as it didn't appeal to his fanbase but having watched it there was a lot for me to enjoy.It took 53 minutes before we got to the court case and in those first 52 we saw a world like that of Mike Hammer filled with curvy women.Great for me also to see Neil Merryweather & Lyn (Mama Lion) Carey perform together at a disco sequence(Ms Carey provided the real vocals in B.T.V.O.T.D.)These are 2 of my favourite "unknown"(by the majority) musicians.Of course Russ gave roles to some of his regular actors from his cult movies whom are fun to look out for. - one thing I must add re Roger Eberts glowing praise for his friend on The Dolls commentary is that I have listened to Russ' own commentaries on his earlier films and they were more about who was boning whom on the cast and crew which for such a "nice man" doesn't ring true.
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5.0 out of 5 starsI had only seen this film in snatches when it came on TV like 30 or more years ago
By David Anthony on 22 Feb. 2016
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This is the third time I have had to buy the DVD of Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. I bought my first copy about 12 years ago, movie only, no extras and a typo on the cover. When the two-disc edition came out only a couple of years ago, I just hadda get, I just hadda. A marvellous DVD presentation with audiocommentaries, documentaries etc. Then out comes this Blu-Ray with Meyer's other 20th Century-Fox classic, The Seven Minutes included as a DVD. Woo hoo! I had only seen this film in snatches when it came on TV like 30 or more years ago. Then it disappeared and I never came across it on TV or VHS or DVD. Until now. These two films are underrated in Meyer's canon. He wasn't entirely happy working in the studio system and wanted full control over his work. Well, that's fine, but these two innovative and inventive films were revolutionary and unconventional films featuring Meyer's fast moving editing and snappy dialogue. They are both something of a throwback to Howard Hawks's comedies, though I detect a certain Fordian quality. Ward Bond's mad preacher in The Searchers would not have been out of place in these pictures, Jay C. Flippen's politico is a larger-than-life Fordian character in a sensational, outrageous, hysterically funny performance. The Seven Minutes, based on the novel by Irving Wallace about censorship, an issue big in the US after sensational cases over Ginsberg's Howl and Burroughs' The Naked Lunch. The film stars two stalwart actors who have previously played George Armstrong Custer, namely Wayne Maunder as the crusading lawyer and Phil Carey as the slick political apparatchik. The cast is full of veterans like John Carradine, Lyle Bettger, great ol' Aussie actor Ron Randell, Stanley Adams, Charles Drake and, of course, Yvonne De Carlo in a pivotal role.Read more ›
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