Hollywood Boulevard Collection

Comedy

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Hollywood Boulevard

New World Pictures

United States of America

English

Candice Rialson

Mary Woronov

Rita George

Jeffrey Kramer

Dick Miller

Richard Doran

Tara Strohmeier

Paul Bartel

John Kramer

Jonathan Kaplan

George Frayne

George Wagner

W.L. Luckey

David Boyle

Glenn K. Shimada

Joseph McBride

Barbara Pieters

Shawn Pieters

Sue Veneer

Charles B. Griffith

Miller Drake

Robert Short

Roberta Dean

Milton Kahn

Todd McCarthy

Forrest J. Ackerman

Allan Arkush

Joe Dante

Danny Opatoshu

Lewis Teague

Roger Corman

Jon Davison

Amy Holden Jones

C.D. Smith

Robert Gravenor

Richard L. Anderson

Teri Schwartz

Brink Brydon

'Rocket' Rick New

Andy Stein

Jamie Anderson

Jack De Wolf

Jane Ruhm

Roger George

**_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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