La vallée des plaisirs

Original title: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

1970
16
1h 49m

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6.1/10

12K

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An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hopes of achieving success, only to be lured by an eccentric music producer and his entourage into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hopes of achieving success, only to be lured by an eccentric music producer and his entourage into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hopes of achieving success, only to be lured by an eccentric music producer and his entourage into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

12K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,546

2,260

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
According to Roger Ebert's audio commentary on the DVD, Russ Meyer was unaware that this film would get an "X" rating. Fox executives had intended for the film to be a hard "R," and Meyer omitted significant amounts of nudity and sex from the final edit. Ebert says that Meyer wanted to add much of the excised footage back into the edit following the MPAA's "X" rating, but there wasn't enough time to do so.

Goofs
Ronnie picks up an extension phone when Casey 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.

Quotes
Ronnie (Z-Man) Barzell: This is my happening and it freaks me out!

Crazy credits
Opening disclaimer: "The film you are about to see is not a sequel to La Vallée des poupées (1967). It is wholly original and bears no relationship to real persons, living or dead. It does, like "Valley of the Dolls" deal with the oft-times nightmare world of show business but in a different time and context."

Alternate versions
The British Board of Film Classification have cut the UK video release by 53 seconds. New opening credits were required for this release, as the BBFC would not allow a montage shot of a gun being pushed into the mouth of a sleeping woman, a scene that also reappears in full at the end of the movie (and was also cut). Ironically, the film has been broadcast uncut several times on UK network TV, by Channel 4.

Connections
Featured in Willie & Phil (1980)

Soundtracks
In The Long Run
by Bob Stone and Stu Phillips

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Featured review

This is my happening and it freaks me out!!!

This film is a necessity for anyone with a sense of humor.

Anyone who doesn't think it was intentionally funny needs to sit back and groove baby. Some of the dialog seems to have been influenced by Dragnet '69 (which by the way is a much dirtier sounding title than BVD), The only other example of such painfully "hip" dialog. The use of Wonder Woman, and Robin the Boy Wonder at the end was too cool for words.

See it now!!!