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Rating: 5.7/10 by 36 users

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fair, which starts being plagued by strange, deadly accidents.

Directing:
  • Allan Arkush
  • Joe Dante
Writing:
  • Danny Opatoshu
Stars:
Release Date: Sun, Apr 25, 1976

Rating: 5.7/10 by 36 users

Alternative Title:
星光大道 - CN
In Hollywood ist der Teufel los - DE

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 23 minutes
Budget: $60,000
Revenue: $0

Plot Keyword: rape, snuff, car crash, philippines, murder, hollywood, explosion, filmmaking, film director
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Candice Rialson
Candy Wednesday
Mary Woronov
Mary McQueen
Rita George
Bobbi Quackenbush
Jeffrey Kramer
Patrick Hobby
Dick Miller
Walter Paisley
Paul Bartel
Eric Von Leppe
John Kramer
Duke Mantee
George Frayne
Commander Cody
W.L. Luckey
Rico Bandello
David Boyle
Obnoxious Kid
Glenn K. Shimada
Ubiqutious Filipino
Joseph McBride
Drive-In Rapist
Barbara Pieters
Drive-In Mother
Shawn Pieters
Drive-In Kid
Sue Veneer
Drive-In Dyke
Miller Drake
First Mutant
Roberta Dean
First Reporter
Milton Kahn
Second Reporter
Forrest J. Ackerman
Party Guest (uncredited)
Allan Arkush
Sheriff (uncredited)
Joe Dante
Party Waiter (uncredited)
Danny Opatoshu
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lewis Teague
Party Guest (uncredited)

Wuchak

**_Madcap spoof of all Roger Corman genres_** A beautiful blonde from Indiana (Candice Rialson) moves to Hollywood to become an actress and find fame. She hooks-up with a dubious team of moviemakers who run Miracle Pictures. Their slogan is: “If it’s a good picture, it’s a miracle.” Statuesque Mary Woronov is on hand as an increasingly bitter actress who works for the company. “Hollywood Boulevard” (1976) is an amusing send-up of Grade Z filmmaking with comedy, action, slasher, you-name-it. It’s amusing for the first 40 minutes or so, but starts to lose its charm by the second half. Sure, it’s entertaining to a point if you want to turn-off your brain for a fun time, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a shallow, throwaway flick. Nevertheless, there’s a surprising sequence that obviously influenced Coppola and his outstanding air raid on the village sequence in “Apocalypse Now.” Blonde Candice Rialson was a memorable B-film starlet in the 70s, along the lines of redhead Claudia Jennings; and, less so, thin Tara Strohmeier, who plays Jill here. Meanwhile brunette Rita George is notable as Bobbi. There’s quite a bit of top nudity, so stay away if you find that objectionable. Eleven years later, "Howling III: The Marsupials" would feature a satirical filmmaking crew, similar to the one in this one. It runs 1 hour, 23 minutes, and was shot in Los Angeles, including Hollywood, except for sequences done at Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills, which is west of there, just north of Malibu in the high country (the Western town set and open landscape shots). GRADE: C


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