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Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979, USA) C-93m. *** D: Russ Meyer. Starring Kitten Natividad, Ken Kerr, Stuart Lancaster, Henry Rowland, Uschi Digard, Russ Meyer. Typically engaging, tongue-in-cheek sex movie from the genre's master about Small Town, U.S.A., where the citizens have typical problems, mostly related to sex. Worker Kerr can't look his sexy wife Natividad in the eyes during the act, so he searches for a cure at a most unusual radio station. Fast-paced, with outrageous characters and ideas, and a purple-prose narrative that holds it all together. One of Meyer's best. This was his last theatrical film, despite the announcement of a sequel JAWS OF THE VIXEN, which was never made. Meyer made one more movie (for the video market) three years before his death, PANDORA PEAKS (2001). Cowritten by Roger Ebert, who had collaborated with Meyer for the classic BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970) and the lesser UP! (1976). |