Myra Breckinridge (1970)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Panavision 94m
Director: Mike Sarne
Cast: Mae West, Raquel Welch, John Huston, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, John Carradine
Synopsis:
The nephew of the wealthy owner of a Hollywood talent school for the hopelessly untalented determines to become a woman and teach masculinity a lesson or two, besides claiming a half share in the property by virtue of his own 'decease'.
Review:
Nonsensical, inconsequential satire that goes nowhere and ends as arbitrarily as it begins, this was something of a censorship watershed ('fuck's in the dialogue, an implied anal rape with a strap-on). Punctuated by more or less knowing clips from old movies starring the likes of Laurel and Hardy, it plods along revue-like, embarrassing its male participants no end; West, in a deliciously unbowdlerized reprise of her screen act, and Welch, contriving to act mischief and sexual longing fairly convincingly, come off rather better. Watch out for Tom Selleck, as a stud, in an early unmoustachioed role.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Panavision 94m
Director: Mike Sarne
Cast: Mae West, Raquel Welch, John Huston, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, John Carradine
Synopsis:
The nephew of the wealthy owner of a Hollywood talent school for the hopelessly untalented determines to become a woman and teach masculinity a lesson or two, besides claiming a half share in the property by virtue of his own 'decease'.
Review:
Nonsensical, inconsequential satire that goes nowhere and ends as arbitrarily as it begins, this was something of a censorship watershed ('fuck's in the dialogue, an implied anal rape with a strap-on). Punctuated by more or less knowing clips from old movies starring the likes of Laurel and Hardy, it plods along revue-like, embarrassing its male participants no end; West, in a deliciously unbowdlerized reprise of her screen act, and Welch, contriving to act mischief and sexual longing fairly convincingly, come off rather better. Watch out for Tom Selleck, as a stud, in an early unmoustachioed role.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Panavision 94m
Director: Mike Sarne
Cast: Mae West, Raquel Welch, John Huston, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, John Carradine
Synopsis:
The nephew of the wealthy owner of a Hollywood talent school for the hopelessly untalented determines to become a woman and teach masculinity a lesson or two, besides claiming a half share in the property by virtue of his own 'decease'.
Review:
Nonsensical, inconsequential satire that goes nowhere and ends as arbitrarily as it begins, this was something of a censorship watershed ('fuck's in the dialogue, an implied anal rape with a strap-on). Punctuated by more or less knowing clips from old movies starring the likes of Laurel and Hardy, it plods along revue-like, embarrassing its male participants no end; West, in a deliciously unbowdlerized reprise of her screen act, and Welch, contriving to act mischief and sexual longing fairly convincingly, come off rather better. Watch out for Tom Selleck, as a stud, in an early unmoustachioed role.