This Strange Satire Was Roger Ebert’s Only Produced Screenplay

Beloved film critic Roger Ebert’s only produced screenplay is 1970’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, a psychedelic social satire that parodies the critically condemned The Valley of the Dolls from three years prior.

Working with exploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer, Ebert took viewers on a horny, drug-addled romp through a gloriously exaggerated Los Angeles at the tail end of the tumultuous ‘60s.

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