Sextette | | Cast : | Mae West, Timothy Dalton | | Director : | Ken Hughes | | Studio : | Rhino Video | | Format : | Color | | Released Date : | March 03, 1978 | | DVD Released Date : | December 05, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 20, 2005 | | Summary | only to see and enjoy the great Mae West | Content
 | well, what can i say about this movie, i just acquire it to see the great West on her 80s fun as ever in her last movie work. the dvd transfer? well i cant see any diference between it and the vhs format they have the same bad and poor image, but who cares is Mae West on it thats worth this dvd. for the Mae West fans is a great acquisition. well, she can even move, her voice is litle,but hello she was 85, and stills.... mmmm well come up and see me sometime. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 10, 2005 | | Summary | WE CAME UP TO SEE MAE AND IT WAS GRAND!!! | Content
| Mae West was one of the most brilliant talents ever to grace the Silver Screen and single-handedly saved a major studio from going under in the depression era of the early thirties! Legendary movies that are total classics make Mae one of the greatest ever top female Superstars...then in her 80's Mae West once again treated us to a view of the legend and many of us found pleasure in this fun movie that once again gives us a chance to have a view of the classic and very legendary Mae West! God forbid that anyone or any of us age...Mae was never conventional having started her motion picture career in her forties and continued in the following decades doing various stage and recording projects so it wasn't at all surprising that Mae West would do yet another motion picture once again in her eigthies!!! Mae was still very entertaining and I had the thrill of going to the preview of this delightful movie in 1978 in Westwood, California as I had a strong feeling that Mae West herself would attend...we formed a line which I was head of right behind the red velvet ropes and soon a red carpet rolled out and media came from everywhere equiped with boom mikes that started out in the street and lined the red carpet! Up came a shining limousine and out came a sparkling and radiant Mae West with a strapping guy in a tuxedo on each arm...Mae in person looked magnificent and the crowd went wild...she strutted up the red carpet and stopped at each interviewer and popped off witty and very funny one liners that had us all cracking up! Mae West looked gorgeous and we all gave her a standing ovation inside of the theatre when it was announced over the PA that she was in attendance and a spotlight lit her up...luckily I was seated a few rows in front of Mae so I got to look directly at her and give her a big smile and let out a few Bravo's...Mae was beaming and it was a magical event that I will never forget! I find it sad that some put down her last effort to entertain and we all loved this "over the top" entertaining movie on that great afternoon in Westwood and I still do! Recently I watched Sextette with a friend and we laughed and loved every moment of the Magic Of Mae West with a fun cast of amusing characters including a wonderful performance by Dom Deluise...and watch how Mae lights up when George Raft appears on screen with her!!! Those who think that life is perfect and we never age...get over it and get a reality check!!!! Thank you Mae West for your genius and sharing your incredible and wonderous gifts with us for some seventy-plus years and for the support that you warmly gave to the Gay Community when nobody else would even get close to it...you were the best in the West and leave behind a treasure chest of classics for us to savor and enjoy!!! If you love Mae then grab this while you can as cult favorites such as Sextette usually have a short release run...BRAVO MAE WEST! |
| Rating | | | Date | February 01, 2005 | | Summary | WILD, HILARIOUS, JAW-DROPPER | Content
| I bought the VHS edition on the Media label (1980's release) because I have heard that the Rhino DVD has a terrible picture and garbled sound. My copy looks really good. Having said that, WOW, what a movie! Mae West is great and hilarious in the psuedo-musical. Timothy Dalton of James Bond fame, Ringo Starr, Dom Deluise, Walter Pidgeon, Regis Philbin and many others appear in it too. West is Marlo Manners, legendary Hollywood sex queen! Many famous songs get a dubious revival in this unbelievable film. You will just have to see it to believe it! |
| Rating | | | Date | December 29, 2004 | | Summary | SHOULD BE CALLED "OCTOGENETTE" | Content
| Don't get me wrong, this is a d-r-r-r-eadful movie, but for once the phrase "So bad that it's good" is actually true. This was Ms. West's last movie before her death and she appears to be semi-mummified and barely conscious in all her scenes. (After all she was nearly eighty years old.) Still she trots out all the lines for which she's famous - "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" "Come up and see me", etc. - standing or lying stiff as a board, however the crew happens to have propped her up I guess. Several well-known actors disgraced their resumés with this picture - Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr and George Hamilton play former husbands, Timothy Dalton plays her current one, Dom Deluise is her manager, the likes of Regis Philbin and Rona Barrett play themselves in cameos, and Alice Cooper plays a singing waiter. (I don't think anyone has heard of him since.) Yes, it is a musical. When Ms. West (in her role of Marlo Manners, famous movie star) enters the lobby of the British hotel where she is spending her honeymoon, the hotel staff begins to dance in a circle around her, singing "Hooray for Hollywood". Ms. West is given such numbers as the Lennon/McCartney crooner "Honey Pie", a disco rendition of "Baby Face" delivered to the members of an international summit meeting, and a Sedaka song about someone turning twenty-one sung to a roomful of nearly-naked bodybuilders. Absolutely not to be missed, however, is Timothy Dalton singing "Love Will Keep Us Together" to his newlywed bride. As if the Captain and Tennille version wasn't bad enough. This isn't one of those DVD's that presents a lovingly-frame-by-frame restoration of a film. There are no extras whatsoever; it's not widescreen. It looks crappy, but then, it IS crappy. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 21, 2004 | | Summary | Train wreck of a film that can now be called CULT! | Content
| Why oh why would anyone green light this film? I can only imagine that Mae West must have put up the money for the film, because it just doesn't make sense!
Mae West was never an accomplished dramatic actress. She was a sex kitten - even a provacateur way ahead of her time - in mostly sexual comedies of the 1930's and 1940's. At that, West was tops.
In Sextette, West chose to resurrect a script she had written for production back in the 1930's. It is the same script some 40 years later. While that in and of itself is not a bad thing -West stars as the sex kitten once again! That is not good. The film is full of her famous inuendo (which is great), but it is also full of her famous inuendo uttered by her at the tender age of 150.
Honestly, Mae West couldn't look worse! She is shot through so much gauze that she actually looks plastic at times. The director has mentioned that she couldn't remember her lines, so they shot her by herself and fed her lines through a device in her ear. She just repeated the lines as only she could.
That her costumes and her gait are the same some 40 years later is less a testament to the film and her abilities than it is to the sad nature of her career. In an interview some years ago, a friend of hers noted that Mae West had long ago lost any semblance of who Mae West the woman was and only knew how to be "Mae West: Sex Kitten". It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that she was in her late 80's when she appeared in this film (in fact she died less than two years after the film was released).
The film is a quaint little sexual farce built inside a very light piece of intrigue. The whole of the film hinges on West and it is West that you pay the price of admission to see. However, to see Timothy Dalton play West's much younger husband is really icky. George Hamilton and Dom Deluise also appear in large parts.
It's a bizarre little film, that truly is a train wreck, but one worth the price of admission. However, if you are a Mae West lover, it is a sad footnote to a delightful career. |
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