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| ACTORS: | Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Mark Robson |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 15 December, 1967 |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Special Edition, NTSC |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543246367 |
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Customer Reviews of Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition)
"GET LOST , I'M THROUGH FOR THE DAY " !!! " FRENCH SUB-TITLES OVER A BARE BOTTOM DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE IT ART" ~. What a great set. Quality is clear and good and the extras are great. I am a huge fan of this movie and the book as well. I even got the Barbara Parkins "GALA" event dvd from ebay where she supposedly dishes dolls.Yeah, well, SHE DOESN'T. In fact that is my point for writing this. I was very excited that one of the extras was Parkins commentary. HOW DISSAPOINTING. She knows and remembers very little about the movie or her co-stars. I got so tired of hearing her say " I don't know" and " I don't remember". <
>She likes herself,ALOT, and likes to talk about herself,ALOT, which is fine except, again, it's not about "Valley" that she is speaking. Barbara Parkins, a lovely woman, a good actress, the perfect Anne Welles. But, it's too bad Patty did'nt do the comentary or both Duke and Parkins. I'ts to bad Patty wasn't into the project. Perhaps fans would have gotten alot more info and memory's than we did from Parkins. <
>All in all a great dvd. A must have for "DOLLS" fans.
Beware of missing extras
Although the extras listed on amazon are correct, the pre-release information for this DVD (and the detail listings on many other sites), include many extras that for whatever reason did not make it to the retail version. Among them:
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>-Doll-A-Palooza: Addicts Forum A Go-Go
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>-Translate French Porn Movies
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>- a screen test for Judy Garland
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>- a k.d.lang remix
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>While the movie is as hilariously awful as it ever was, and the included extras are terrific, be aware that these other extras are NOT on the DVD.
"Let 'em droop!"
Anne is prim and proper; we know this because she speaks in a whisper and looks like she's going to fall asleep talking to you. She's also from New England where, apparently, it's always snowy.
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>Neely is spastic; she steals milk from doorways (wild!!) and wears double strand necklaces that do obscene things when she's singing on TV telethons. She also likes to work out in wacky split-screen montages and pours perfectly good whiskey in her swimming pool.
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>Jennifer is beautiful; she wears big headdresses and makes French art films ("Nudies!!!" says Neely) where she almost spills wine into men's shoes.
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>What happens when these women all meet is chronicled in "Valley of the Dolls" - or not. Unlike the novel, the movie never develops how any of these women become friends. The movie never develops much of anything and I wouldn't have it any other way. This mess of a film is one of the premier examples of unintentional camp and is a true classic. How can you hate a movie where the extras on the DVD all talk about how bad it is? How often is that done?
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>Great hair, great wardrobe, bad songs, a John Williams score, Lee Grant's non-sequitirs ("At night, all cats are gray" - what?) and Susan Hayward's neo-classical outfit while she sings about growing trees are just a few delights that await you. The best part of "Dolls" is that it was made in an era where the Hayes code was overruled, but "Dolls" wasn't willing to go all the way into edgy so it strikes an unhappy medium between two worlds. The film we get is a traditional looking, eye-poppingly colorful, Hollywood spectacle where the word "fag" is tossed around like a salad and the characters go through with their abortions, unlike in director Mark Robson's previous scandalous movie, "Peyton Place" where the Hayes code forced a character to simply miscarry. One of Robson's later films was "Earthquake" which would serve well as a double feature with "Dolls".
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>"Valley of the Dolls" is the best of the worst, and what could be better than the great DVD treatment we are given here? Interviews with the stars, retrospectives, trailers ... this DVD was worth waiting for. You no longer need to climb Mount Everest to reach the "Valley of the Dolls", this baby has finally arrived.