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Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard

  • Status: Released
  • 25-04-1976
  • Runtime: 83 min
  • Score: 5.5
  • Vote count: 41

A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fair, which starts being plagued by strange, deadly accidents.

Candice Rialson

Candy Wednesday

Mary Woronov

Mary McQueen

Rita George

Bobbi Quackenbush

Jeffrey Kramer

Patrick Hobby

Dick Miller

Walter Paisley

Richard Doran

P.G.

Tara Strohmeier

Jill McBain

Paul Bartel

Eric Von Leppe

John Kramer

Duke Mantee

Jonathan Kaplan

Scotty

George Frayne

Commander Cody

George Wagner

Cameraman

W.L. Luckey

Rico Bandello

David Boyle

Obnoxious Kid

Glenn K. Shimada

Ubiqutious Filipino

Joseph McBride

Drive-In Rapist

Barbara Pieters

Drive-In Mother

Shawn Pieters

Drive-In Kid

Sue Veneer

Drive-In Dyke

Charles B. Griffith

Mark Dentine

Miller Drake

First Mutant

Robert Short

Godzina

Roberta Dean

First Reporter

Milton Kahn

Second Reporter

Todd McCarthy

Author

Forrest J. Ackerman

Party Guest (uncredited)

Allan Arkush

Sheriff (uncredited)

Joe Dante

Party Waiter (uncredited)

Danny Opatoshu

Party Guest (uncredited)

Lewis Teague

Party Guest (uncredited)

Wuchak

**_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