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Mondo Hollywood
- Director: Robert Carl Cohen
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Banned in 1968 - because it contained perversity...that would be the music, the opening song is an insult to musical composition.
Sprawling, erratic and indulgent - it's a look at the 60s through 60s eyes.
It's over-hyped, rated, blown and long.
No trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Long considered a cult classic, "Mondo Hollywood" captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time (1965-67), when an inquisitive trust in the unknown was paramount, hope for the future was tangible and life was worth living on the fringe. An interior monologue narrative approach is used throughout the film, where each principal person shown not only decided on what they wanted to be filmed doing, but also narrated their own scenes. The film opens with Gypsy Boots (the original hippie vegan - desert hopping blender salesman), and stripper Jennie Lee, working out 'Watusi-style' beneath the 'Hollywood' sign -- leading into the 'sustainable community' insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III, the S&H Green Stamp heir, who lived in a $10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu
Cast & Characters
Margaretta Ramsey as Herself;
Michelle Angelo as Herself;
Ann-Margret as Herself;
Brigitte Bardot as Herself;
Bobby Beausoleil as Cupid;
Jimmy Carl Black as Himself;
Sonny Bono as Himself;
Gypsy Boots as Himself;
Theodore Charach as Himself;
Cher as Herself;
Ram Dass as Himself;
Troy Donahue as Himself;
Rudi Gernreich as Designer;
Gary Lewis as Himself;
Trini Lopez as Himself