Review of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

All the Russ Meyer films I have seen do seem to have more nudity, sex and Carry On type comedy, but this hardly has any. It is the story of an all-girl band called the Carrie Nations scaling the dizzy heights of rock-star fame and then crash-landing into decadent sleaze. It has mostly drugs, relationships, cults, singing and sleaze, not much nudity or sex. Starring Dolly Read as Kelly McNamara, Cynthia Myers as Casey Anderson, Marcia McBroom as Petronella Danforth, John Lazar as Ronnie 'Z-Man' Barzell (who you find out is a hermaphrodite), Michael Blodgett as Lance Rocke, David Gurian as Harris Allsworth, Edy Williams as Ashley St. Ives, Vixen's Vixen herself Erica Gavin as Roxanne, Phyllis Davis as Susan Lake, Harrison Page as Emerson Thorne, Duncan McLeod as Porter Hall, James Inglehart as Randy Black and Charles Napier as Baxter Wolfe. The only nudity I can remember is flashes of breasts and arses, and the lesbian scene towards the end (one of the girls was pregnant!). Very good!