PG | 1h 31min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 3 March 1978
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.
Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper, Walter Pidgeon, George Raft.
Marc Breaux ... choreographer
Jerry Trent ... assistant choreographer
Watched online, blurry.
9 songs in the Soundtracks; not sure that all were performed onscreen.
A much maligned film, with an IMDb rating of 3.2 from 1k+ votes. Per IMDb trivia: The film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in "The Official Razzie® Movie Guide."
I'm a big fan of MW, have all her films but the last 2, and will need to get a copy of this (her last) for sure.
This is a HOOT. They really break into a brief production number multiple times, with various songs.
Some of the songs have been arranged with a disco beat, which is what made disco so very offensive after a short while.
MW has writing credit on this, as she did with nearly all her films. She delivers some of her classic lines in such a slow way that I wanted to participate and did. But it didn't seem lazy, it was a marvelous pastiche of her own work, the things for which we love her.
Yes, she (b. 1893) looks every minute of 80+ years (IMDb says this was filmed 12'76), and therefore all the attention from every man is silly. But she's still wearing the hourglass dresses and big hats & hair, so if you don't look at her face... well, no, she also walks like she should be using a cane (and could've brought out one of those Diamond Lil walking sticks). There's no hip-swaying; she looks like she's planting each step very carefully.
She sings a little, and recites other lyrics.
Everyone is playing a spoof of their former or future roles. TD doesn't become Bond until '86, but Bond is mentioned by another character to him.
I smiled through the whole thing. I cannot imagine who would have rated this poorly. It's an intentionally ridiculous movie. What FUN!
distr. Crown Int'l Pictures, dir. Hughes; 7+
