The Last of Sheila on TCM Saturday 10:45 am PST

Like it very much but it has a nasty undertow. Unlikable characters. Love, love, love James Mason.

It’s kind of creepy.

Trashy fun. Especially if it’s a good quality print and if you read up on the inside jokes (Dyan is playing Sue Mengers, etc.) Also busty former starlet Yvonne Romaine (lots of 1960s Hammer movies) aka Evie Bricusse —who married extremely well — Leslie Bricusse — and is besties with Joan Collins irl (The Newleys and the Bricusses were all pals in the late 1960s) has a tiny cameo as Sheila. Plus Joan Hackett and Raquel Welch spoofing herself, all written by Sondheim and Anthony Perkins.

Campy fun. Written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins. Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, Raquel Welch, James Coburn, James Mason, Ian McShane, and Joan Hackett. Several cast members were playing other famous people in Hollywood: James Mason's character was based on an Orson Welles. Richard Benjamin was playing Anthony Perkins. Dyan Cannon was playing Sue Mengers (her own agent). Raquel Welch was told that she was playing Ann-Margret - when, in fact, she was actually playing herself.

"Raquel Welch was the most selfish, ill-mannered, inconsiderate actress that I have ever had the displeasure of working with." -James Mason

It's more twisted than trashy. I haven't seen it in many years, so I looked it up on IMDB. I knew it was directed by Herbert Ross, but had no idea that it was written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins. Another odd tidbit: the costume designer was Joel Schumacher. A veritable gay fest!

Rocky looks amazing.

Thank you all. Sounds like a go for me.

Sheila is the sled, OP.

" Raquel Welch was told that she was playing Ann-Margret - when, in fact, she was actually playing herself."

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So...like all of her other performances?

WHET The Herbert Ross Troll?

It's one of those movies that sounds "divine" but isn't.

That's a good description, r11.

When Ann-Margret proved she could act in Carnal Knowledge, one reviewer (I think it was in Time) said that until that film she was just a "vanilla Raquel Welch."

It pains me that people don’t understand the difference between PST and PDT.

I cried because I had no shoes...

It is PDST not PST.

Don’t bother. I never got it. Never got Family Plot either.

It's no "Cruise Into Terror".

It's no Voyage of the Damned.

Oh, come on! The movie is great fun, especially the first time you see, following all the clues to whodunnit.

And the great surprise of a then barely known Bette Midler singing "Friends" over the final credits. I remember seeing this in NY in 1973 at the old Sutton Theatre with my gay friends who knew Bette from the Baths.

Were Sondheim and Perkins lovers ?

Yes.

Evil Under the Sun is basically the same movie but much better.

Much less than it thinks it is. In other words written by two lovers who think they are oh so clever. Still worth watching. Though I never want to see that underwater propeller scene again.

I just watched this last night. It’s actually quite good.

[quote] Like it very much but it has a nasty undertow. Unlikable characters

Isn't that the point? Tony Perkins' social circle was monsters, but fun.

Sue Mengers wished she looked as good as Dyan

I love this movie. I find it clever and unpredictable.

Didn't Poisoned Dragon start a thread on this (2024)? Where'd his thread go!