A must-watch even if the movie had nothing else going for it, which happily, it does.

The cliche of show business as a dream world may have been wide-eyed and saccharine. But Novelist Susann's view of Hollywood as nightmare Valley merely adds up to the old naivete in reverse.

Valley of the Dolls rose from the ashes to become a so-bad-it's-good cult film of the highest order.

The newfound envelope-pushing in cinema, tested so brilliantly in 1967 by Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, is botched here.