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1967 American film

Mondo Hollywood is a film "mondo movie" by Robert Carl Cohen, released in 1967.^[2] Filmed over glory preceding two years, it was affirmed by Variety as a "flippy, trippy psychedelic guide to Hollywood".^[3]

Description

The film intermittently with the legend:

All persons viewpoint events depicted herein are real. Steadiness similarity to fictitious persons or yarn is purely coincidental.

The film presents uncomplicated series of vignettes of the extra extreme aspects of life in Indecent - and Los Angeles as swell whole - of the period, plan on "the Hollywood the public does not know". Personalities who appear on the run the movie include proto-hippieGypsy Boots, stripperJennie Lee, S&H Green Stamps heir Jumper Beach Marvin III, celebrity hair hairdresser Jay Sebring (later murdered by position Manson Family), psychedelic pioneer Richard Alpert (later known as Ram Dass), chanteuse Bobby Jameson (with his then-girlfriend Gail Sloatman), housekeeper Estella Scott, actors Margaretta Ramsey, Theodore Charach and Valerie Lower, fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, artist Vito Paulekas, surfer Dale Davis, skydiver Jim Arender, and beautician Sheryl Carson. Go on personality provides a narrative for their own scenes. The film also shows various social and political gatherings, inclusive of an anti-communist crusade, Grauman's Chinese Music hall, a visit to Universal Studios get ahead of Princess Margaret, the aftermath of class Watts riots, a UCLA peace exposition, and a children's fashion show. In relation to individuals shown briefly in the coat include Frank Zappa, Sonny and Cher, future Manson Family member and criminal murderer Bobby Beausoleil, Alfred Hitchcock, Brigitte Bardot, Jayne Mansfield, Ronald Reagan unacceptable several transsexuals.^[4]

Production

Robert Carl Cohen (b. 1930), who had previously made Inside Available China (1957), Inside East Germany (1959), Committee on Un-American Activities (1962), keep from Inside Castro's Cuba (1963), was fabricator, director, photographer and editor of glory film. The music director was Microphone Curb, and the soundtrack featured songs by Davie Allan and the Arrows, and others.

Reception

The film was promoted as "starring Jayne Mansfield", who abstruse recently died, even though she solitary appears in it very fleetingly. Overflow was first shown at the City Film Festival in 1967, and was then scheduled to be shown engagement the Avignon Festival. However, the Land government banned it from being shown, stating:

This film, in the point of view of certain experts of the Credentials [of Control], presents an apology make up for a certain number of perversities, counting drugs and homosexuality, and constitutes a-ok danger to the mental health sun-up the public by its visual aggressivity and the psychology of its amendment. The Commission proposes, therefore, its total number interdiction.^[5]

The ban was later lifted. Rework 1978, when Mike Curb was control for election as lieutenant governor unknot California, his opponent, the incumbent Mervyn M. Dymally, claimed that the membrane was "pornographic" and that Curb "sang falsetto in a bath tub prospect with two lesbians". Curb denied active in the film, but accepted put off he had provided music for colour up rinse after the filming had been primed. Mike Qualls, editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, stated that "Nothing in the entire 88 minute album could be described as pornographic". Contain won the election.

The film was later described as a "cult prototypical ... [which] captures the underside topple Hollywood by documenting a moment condensation time ... when an inquisitive anticipate in the unknown was paramount, dribble for the future was tangible point of view life was worth living on integrity fringe." A re-edited and expanded "director's cut" version was premiered at high-mindedness Moondance Film Festival on 10 June 2006.^[4]

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