Sextette (1978)

User Rating:

2.3/10   

Director:

Ken Hughes

Writers:

Mae West (play)
Herbert Baker (screenplay)

Release Date:

3 March 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

The Sin-Sational Mae West

Plot:

Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number 6. As luck would have it...

Plot Keywords:

Hotel | Honeymoon | Celebrity | Ex Husband | Journalist

Cast

Mae West	...	Marlo Manners / Lady Barrington
Timothy Dalton	...	Sir Michael Barrington
Dom DeLuise	...	Dan Turner
Tony Curtis	...	Alexei Andreyev Karansky
Ringo Starr	...	Laslo Karolny
George Hamilton	...	Vance Norton
Alice Cooper	...	Waiter
Keith Allison	...	Waiter in Alexei's Suite
Rona Barrett	...	Herself
Van McCoy	...	Delegate
Keith Moon	...	Dress Designer
Regis Philbin	...	Himself
Walter Pidgeon	...	Mr. Chambers, the chairman
George Raft	...	Himself
Gil Stratton	...	Himself

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Iceland:L | UK:PG | Ireland:PG | USA:PG

Company:

Briggs and Sullivan

Trivia:

The final film of Walter Pidgeon.

Goofs:

Continuity: Earlier scenes establish the hotel gymnasium is below the lion statue where the tape is. When Barrington recovers the tape from the statue, a street is seen below. However, when he falls he ends up in the gymnasium.

Quotes:

Marlo Manners: A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "20 to 1: 50 to 01: Great Movie One Liners (#4.10)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Happy Birthday Twenty One

Top Ten Things I Love About This Film

I can't add anything to the comments already made about this time-capsule worthy film, but please let me list why it tops my camp favorite list:

1) The tinny musical arrangements! I've never heard a musical sound so small! There's one time when Mae West is lip-syncing to a song (rather poorly) and it kind of churns up like an old Victrola was being cranked.

2) Those waiters tap dancing on the carpeted stairs! With post-dubbed taps!

3) Mae's ONE decent hilarious line reading: (Following a knock on the door) DeLuise- "Who's that?" West- "It ain't opportunity!"

4) The male starlet who plays the "mascot" of the Olympic team! The way he extends his arm to shake Mae West's hand is pure Gloria Upson from "Auntie Mame."

5) The dancing bellboys and maids in the "Next" number...a hoot!

6) Timothy Dalton singing "Love Will Keep Us Together" to Mae West looks a little like a human version of one of those Kermit/Miss Piggy numbers from "The Muppet Show."

7) The cornball macho ad-libs and butch posturing of the Olympic team.

8) Miss West's semi wiggle/shuffle/ hobble thing she does when she's supposed to be walking. Her gowns are so long, why didn't they put her on rollers and push her into scenes? Sure would have pepped things up.

9) The ridiculousness of Keith Moon TRYING to act gay while surrounded by an entire cast of men who don't really have to try.

10) During Mae West's honeymoon interview with the press, the way the laughs to her jokes start and stop like a lid was being lifted and replaced on a Laugh-can.

I love this abomination of a movie. Long live ambitious filmmakers with no talent and legendary stars who never know when to pack it in!