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:

Honeymoon | Hotel | Journalist | One Word Title | Celebrity

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 | Ireland:PG | UK:PG | USA:PG

Company:

Briggs and Sullivan

Trivia:

This was Mae West's final film. George Raft also appeared with her in her first film Night After Night (1932).

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:

Regis Philbin: The wedding of a world famous figure, and surely this figure is famous.

Movie Connections:

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

Soundtrack:

Love Will Keep Us Together

prequel to SEVEN?

How demented is this film! What a crown pleaser! I showed this in the 80s at my cinema ...and to teenagers too! Often they came stumbling into the lobby gasping and choking in disbelief, some came to the ticket box and nervously asked if we knew what was unfolding on the screen. Very proudly I always told them I selected this film myself and made them watch it before the co feature (usually a Monty Python film)......hilarious! The kids were genuinely shocked..to them here was some mummified wedding cake granny sashaying about leering at men of all ages and fondling teen gym boys and various croaky old leading men...and Ringo Starr too......it absolutely rewired their funny little heads. Girls just screamed and screamed and screamed. They couldn't stop. Kids rioted in the stalls. I have never seen an audience behave like it. The noise could be heard blocks away. You should find a copy and show it to everyone you know. Mae West paid for this film herself as her swansong and it's a beauty! What a life! Bonkers maximus.