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DVD Myra Breckinridge
We can safely call it one of the most notorious films in Hollywood history: Myra Breckenridge, the wild, tasteless, legendary disaster. Sprung from a novel by Gore Vidal, Myra tells the tender tale of a man (damply played by film critic Rex Reed) who has a sex-change operation and goes to Hollywood as a woman--played by Raquel Welch. Mae West creaked out of retirement to play a man-hungry agent (one of her meals is young Tom Selleck), and John Huston is an aging cowboy star, Myra's nemesis. To say the movie endorses the destruction of sex roles in modern society would be giving the rampant incoherence too much credit. Old film clips, plus footage (all too apt!) of atomic bomb tests are spliced into the action, to puerile effect. Almost everybody involved with the film disowned it, especially a horrified Vidal. Is there a cult for this movie? They can have it. --Robert Horton
you are all taking this film FAR too seriously....it's camp sweeties: so just relax and have a laugh!
yes, Mae West was in her seventies, and Mae's persona was NEVER to be taken seriously, she was in her FORTIES after all when she was supposed to be the sex bomb of the thirties...jeezes, she knew she had 'm all by the balls ...what a glorious spoof she created and all praise to her for sticking to it with vigor untill she died!
jazzman
Jaw dropping BAAAAAAAD. Embarrassing to watch. Can we say
BOMB! ... Not a shred of value or depth. Yuck.
Heavenly Farrah
Myra Breckinridge is a strange movie. When Raquel Welch and Farrah Fawcett are on the screen, is great. The hot Welch's seduction on an inocent Farrah is very sexy and luxurious. Welch's scene with the Farrah's stud is different and good too, besides the two most wanted sex symbols of the seventies on the same movie is something to remember. But what is it Mae West?! Ok, she was funny at the past, but her scenes (specially the songs) are out of the order.
Besides that, Myra is an interesting movie. The visual is very rich, and we can get a lot of ideas watching this.
Mae West was in her mid 80s when she made "Sextette"--a musical based on one of her many plays. Mae West--one of the greatest sex symbols in the history of cinema--plays famous actress Marlo Manners. When the film begins Marlo is in London to marry Lord Barrington (Timothy Dalton) who will be her sixth husband. After the ceremony, the lovebirds are ushered to their posh hotel for the honeymoon, and Marlo's sneaky manager Dan Turner (Dom de Luise) makes all the final arrangements in the honeymoon suite. He fusses over the flowers and the huge ostentatious bed flown in from Hollywood for the famous coupling.
Marlo and Lord Barrington are continually pestered by her career demands. There are interviews, photo sessions, and Marlo's ex-husbands keep trooping through the bedroom.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Mae West - Timothy Dalton Director(s): Ken Hughes DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This has been a pretty good year for fans of the lovely AND talented Raquel Welch. First 20th Century Fox released "The Raquel Welch Collection" box set, then Warner Home Video gave us "The Last Of Sheila" and now "The Wild Party", probably one of Miss Welch's best films! And thanks to the fine folks at MGM we have the ORIGINAL, UN-CUT version not the version originally released by AIP back in the 70s. And what a glorious film it is! Rocky is just great as Queenie, the mistress of Jolly Grimm (James Coco), a washed up silent movie comedian vainly attempting to make a comeback into pictures. She is endearing and sexy as his tender young lover, and the song she sings ("SINGAPORE SALLY") is a real treat!
Picture and sound are both quite good on this disc and the extra's include the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): James Ivory DVD Release Date: Released the 15 June 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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A certain lime-green bikini reaches icon status in Fathom, clinging as tightly to Raquel Welch as those phagocytes that attacked her in Fantastic Voyage. Raquel was the reigning sex goddess of the moment, which is all you need to know about Fathom, an otherwise extremely silly example of proto-Austin Powers spy spoofery. She's a poster come to life, and the movie is geared around her '60s outfits (a purple-and-cornflower ensemble is particularly stupefying), her orange-peach lipstick, and the way her hair seems perfectly in place even after a high-speed boat chase. Sadly, Raquel's dialogue delivery is as stiff as her brunette mane, but the movie perks up when she is chased around by an angry bull, a sequence that may have you wondering whether you ate some bad... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Leslie H. Martinson DVD Release Date: Released the 09 March 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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In I'm No Angel, Mae West's second star vehicle, she's sideshow attraction Tira, "the girl who discovered you don't have to have feet to be a dancer." As usual, West wrote all her own dialogue for the film, and it's full of priceless wisecracks. A crowd of men ogles her as she tosses off a saucy little number, "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk," swinging her hips phlegmatically. Then she slithers offstage, muttering "Suckers." Bored with life, Tira consults a fortuneteller. "I see a man in your future," he drones. "What, only one?" quips Mae. Tira wants to quit the carnival, so her boss (an unctuous Edward Arnold) makes her a proposition. If she'll become the show's lion tamer, she can meet "the swells." Just one little thing: she's got to put her head in the lion's mouth. (West... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Mae West - Cary Grant Director(s): Wesley Ruggles DVD Release Date: Released the 10 October 2000 This item is currently not available.
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If ever there was a study conducted on the effects the Hays Code had on a flourishing Hollywood career they would need to go no further than Mae West to see a classic example of it's influence in action. At the time the censors began coming down the heavy on Hollywood for it's supposedly "loose" approach to morals and sexuality, Mae West was one of Hollywood's most glowing stars who made a speciality of sexually suggestive comedy that actually said little but implied lots in the eager movie goers minds. She had huge successes with pre code efforts such as "She Done Him Wrong", and "I'm No Angel", but by the time she got to film "Goin' to Town" (1935) and in particular this effort "Klondike Annie" (1936), she was sadly loosing the battle with the censors to get all her "risque" material on... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Mae West - Victor McLaglen Director(s): Raoul Walsh DVD Release Date: Released the 17 October 2000 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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