Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 NC-17, 109 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Russ Meyer Cast: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian, Edy Williams, Charles Napier, Erica Gavin, Harrison Page
A female rock trio tries to make it big in Hollywood in this film featuring all the decadence that could get by the censors.
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Caged Heat 1974 R, 84 min. Genre: Drama aka: Renegade Girls
Director: Jonathan Demme Cast: Erica Gavin, Don Heitzer, Mike Shack, Gary Goetzman, Cheryl Smith, John Aprea, Gina Martine, Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins, Barbara Steele
This is Oscar-winning director ("The Silence of the Lambs") Jonathan Demme's first feature film and concerns a women's prison and the treatment of a wrongly convicted young girl by the tough inmates.
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Vixen! 1968 N/R, 95 min. Genre: Comedy aka: Russ Meyer's Vixen
Director: Russ Meyer Cast: Erica Gavin, Garth Pillsbury, Harrison Page, Jon Evans, Vincent Wallace, Robert Aiken, Michael O'Donnell
This satire on skin flicks has lots of skin itself. Vixen (Erica Gavin) and her bush pilot husband (Garth Pillsbury) live in the Canadian mountains, where he flies tourists around the area. Vixen, meanwhile, has a good time with the tourists, unless they are Black. Some good scenes in this typical Russ Meyer sex-ploitation effort.
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| 1. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
2. Caged Heat (1974) aka: Renegade Girls
3. Vixen! (1968) aka: Russ Meyer's Vixen
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