Showing posts with label Sharon Tate. Show all posts
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Thursday, 23 September 2021

Valley of the Dolls (1967)


 

Three women, all of whom make a career in the world of glamour, experience a string of failed relationships. As they get older, they resort to pills to numb the pain they are going through.

A sordid pulp melodrama gets high-gloss Hollywood treatment; the result is what one would expect, and its not so good.

Halliwell*: "Cliche-ridden but good-looking road-to-ruin melodrama from a bitchy bestseller; production values high, but the whole thing goes over the top at the end."

Maltin BOMB: "Scattered unintentional laughs do not compensate for terribly written, acted, and directed adaptation of Jacqueline Susann novel..." 



Sunday, 8 May 2016

Dance of the Vampires (1967)


A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.