Sextette
(1978)
Director
- Ken Hughes
Writers - Mae West – Play
Herbert Baker – Screenplay
Starring - Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis,
Ringo Starr, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper, Keith Allison,
Rona Barrett, Van McCoy, Keith Moon, Regis Philbin, Walter
Pigeon, George Raft, Gil Stratton.
Review by Noel Baily
Mae
West does PLAN NINE!
In many ways, SEXTETTE is like PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE
- totally beyond rating under any conventional system. More
bizarre than anything else, you gotta admire the guts of the
lady. To act out the personna of a youthful blonde-bombshell
when you're 85 years old, MAY be obscene and for anyone except
Mae West it would be, but that is what she always stood for
and if she wanted to make this film just 20 months before
her death. then I say THAT is a benchmark no other woman will
ever manage.
Gruesome
as she may have appeared...she DIDN'T look 85 - think about
it!That is awesomely old. Not too many gals of that antiquity
are even standing unaided, let alone spewing out one-liners
to men one third of their age. To me, SEXTETTE will be remembered
for the biggest shock in film history....seeing stiff and
starchy Timothy Dalton break into song with his rendition
of "Love Will Keep us Together." I often wonder
whether he ever attempted to buy up every known copy of SEXTETTE
to destroy the evidence? How much did they PAY him to do that?
An orgy
of bad taste? A celebration of Mae West the eternal siren?
It really doesn't matter now does it? I have a suspicion that
like Ed Wood, she really enjoyed herself that year. God bless
her!
WHATEVER
your views on this movie, there can never be another like
it!
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