Beyond The Valley of The Dolls USED

In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual razzle-dazzle “King of the Nudies” Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls.

With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three rock-and-roll female rockers going Hollywood, hell-bent for stardom—until they fall under the spell of a flamboyant producer-dealer.

The film’s psychedelic color and baroque style showcase Meyer’s trademark libidinal exuberance. Transgressive and outrageous, this big-studio version of a debaucherous midnight movie is an addictively entertaining romp from one of cinema’s great outsider artists.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

Audio commentary from 2003 featuring screenwriter Roger Ebert

Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actors Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page, John LaZar, and Erica Gavin

New interview with filmmaker John Waters

Episode from 1988 of The Incredibly Strange Film Show on director Russ Meyer

Q&A about the film from 1992 featuring Meyer, Ebert, LaZar, and Read, and actors David Gurian, Charles Napier, Michael Blodgett, and more

Interview with cast members from 2005

Above, Beneath & Beyond the Valley: Look On Up at the Bottom; The Best of "Beyond"; Sex, Drugs, Music & Murder; and Casey & Roxanne — five documentaries from 2006

Screen tests

Trailers

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Glenn Kenny and excerpts from a 1970 account in the UCLA Daily Bruin of a visit to the film’s set