Myra Breckinridge (1970)

Regisseur:

Michael Sarne

Drehbuchautoren:

David Giler (writer)
Michael Sarne (writer)

Premierendatum:

24. Juni 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie

Werbezeile:

Everything you heard about Myra Breckinridge is true.

Plot:

Myron Breckinridge is waiting for his sex-change operation while a stoned surgeon stumbles into the operating room...

Plot Keywords:

Cult Favorite | Non Statutory Female On Male Anal Rape | Castration | Film Making | Homosexual

Nutzerkommentare:

This movie (was) a slap in the face of America's sexual dysfunction!

Besetzung

Mae West	...	Leticia Van Allen
John Huston	...	Buck Loner
Raquel Welch	...	Myra Breckinridge
Rex Reed	...	Myron
Farrah Fawcett	...	Mary Ann Pringle
Roger C. Carmel	...	Dr. Randolph Spencer Montag
Roger Herren	...	Rusty Godowski
George Furth	...	Charlie Flager Jr.
Calvin Lockhart	...	Irving Amadeus
Jim Backus	...	Doctor
John Carradine	...	Surgeon
Andy Devine	...	Coyote Bill
Grady Sutton	...	Kid Barlow
Robert P. Lieb	...	Charlie Flager Sr. (as Robert Lieb)
Skip Ward	...	Chance

Alternativ:

Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge
Myra Breckinridge (Österreich) [de]
Myra Breckinridge - Die Sexgöttin Hollywoods (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

94 Min | Spain:91 Min (alternate version)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Altersfreigabe:

West Germany:18 (original rating) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Germany:12 (re-rating) (2006) | USA:X (original rating) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Finland:K-16 | UK:18 | USA:R (edited for re-rating) (1978) | Australia:M

Drehorte:

Chateau Marmont - 8221 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Dies und das:

Director Michael Sarne originally wanted Mickey Rooney to play the part of Buck Loner, but John Huston was cast.

Pannen:

Verschiedenes: The sign at the entrance identifying Buck Loner's Academy is placed to be read from inside the campus, not from the street outside as would be necessary in real life to help people find the establishment.

Dialogzitate:

Myra: Stand up when a woman comes in the room, you son of a bitch!

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in "Saturday Night Live: Raquel Welch/Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian (#1.18)" (1976)

Soundtrack:

The Man's in the Navy

This movie (was) a slap in the face of America's sexual dysfunction!

I read "Myra Breckinridge" in 1969 when I was riding a bus from St. Louis to San Antonio, and I fell in love with everything about the book. I saw the movie when it first came out (even though I was not, legally, old enough) and had a blast. This film (I do NOT use that term loosely) had so much going on and not going on between pretty people and not so pretty people who were acting badly and beautifully while doing evil and funny and disgusting and sweet things to each other in the most vicious and caring ways possible, I was overwhelmed by it all. It had more to say in its heaving breast about the cruel and elevated ways in which man treats his fellow man than every Oscar-winning picture since...and all while telling its story in the most absurd and drug-inducing manner possible.

But what adds even more to the meaning of the film is how it destroyed the career of not just its director (who probably deserved it) but also ruined any chance of a career for Roger Herren solely because he played a character who was raped by a woman. Men can play rapists and women can be raped and gang raped and even play lesbians, and they receive Oscars for their performances and no one thinks the worst of them. But let a man get sodomized and suddenly everyone questions his masculinity and ability to relate to the opposite sex. And THAT is where MYRA BRECKINRIDGE stands tall.

Yes, the movie is a smash-up of styles and insane casting choices and baldly ludicrous dialogue and unintentionally funny acting, but so were more recent idiot movies like THE ROCK and TITANIC and SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, and look how successful they became...and how quickly they will be forgotten. At least MYRA BRECKINRIDGE, the movie (maybe even moreso than the book), worked as a slap in the face of America's sexual dysfunction and hypocrisy...and I believe THAT is what bothers so many people about it. And that is why it remains a movie worth watching,