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Released
1970 · FILM

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

An all-female rock band heads to Hollywood to chase fame, only to get trapped in a surreal spiral of drugs, sex, and exploitation.

This Is Not A Sequel. There Has Never Been Anything Like It!

Directed by
Runtime
109 min
ComedyDramaMusic
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

An all-female rock band relocates to Hollywood with the goal of achieving success, only to become entangled in a cycle of corruption and excess.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dann CahnShot by Fred J KoenekampScored by Stu Phillips

Box Office

1970 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$9.0M

Budget$2.1M
Worldwide gross$9.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Blumen ohne Duftde
  • La Vallée des plaisirsfr
  • Lungo la valle delle bamboleit

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