Monday, June 9, 2014

Myra Breckenridge (1970)

How bad is it? Many involved with it disowned it and the video was pulled from circulation.
Should you see it? Yes. It has cult and camp appeal.

Welch and Fawcett
Gore Vidal's wild novel gets a suitably wild treatment that appeals to some, but didn't have a mass appeal. Mae West appears for the first time since 1944 (though she'd do yet one more film, "Sextette," later) and wrote her own lines, as an agent for an ingenue. That ingenue is film critic Rex Reed, who has a sex change operation - performed by none other than John Carradine - and becomes Racquel Welch! Racquel ends up in bed with several people, including Farrah Fawcett. There's a lot of old film clips and a lot of old stars, such as Andy Devine, John Huston and Grady Sutton, plus some new faces, like Tom Selleck. It doesn't work as a narrative, but neither did the novel.

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