The film here is about The Happy Hooker book being transformed into a movie with the help of the author's prostitutes. OK movie with a bunch of filler scenes and a lot of nudity.
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Hooker goes Hollywood.
cwolf1011 June 2020
Happy Hooker: The Final Chapter.
Captain_Couth22 June 2004
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980) follows the "Happy Hooker" to Hollywood. Whilst in movie land she brings along her crew of prostitutes and associates. "The world's most famous madam" goes Hollywood when some sleazy studio types try to get the Madam for all she's worth. Unlike the previous two, the film-makers tried to make it campy and sexy. Another actress plays the "Happy Hooker" this time around and she also get's into the act along with her co- workers. Strange support cast featuring Adam West (who get's real close to the Madam), Phil Silvers and Richard Deacon (Fred Rutherford from Leave it to Beaver) along with the unherald Chris Lemmon.
What is there to say about this one? It's not as lame and tame as the first film but it's not as good as the second. If you ever wanted to see Adam West finally score or watch Fred Rutherford run around with a towel around his waste, then this is your picture. But if you want to watch something decent, find another film. For die hard fans of the Happy Hooker series. Not worth searching for.
Not recommended for non-fans.
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What is there to say about this one? It's not as lame and tame as the first film but it's not as good as the second. If you ever wanted to see Adam West finally score or watch Fred Rutherford run around with a towel around his waste, then this is your picture. But if you want to watch something decent, find another film. For die hard fans of the Happy Hooker series. Not worth searching for.
Not recommended for non-fans.
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Adam West in the buff
BandSAboutMovies2 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
There aren't many movies that have a scene where Adam West is nude in an Austin Powers way and has a famous madame go down on him while he takes a long satisfying puff on a cigarette, but here with this early Cannon film, which was the third and final in the series* of films about Xaviera Hollander, a Dutch call girl who grew up in a Japanese-run internment camp and going on to be New York City's top madame before writing the best-selling The Happy Hooker: My Own Story, acting in My Pleasure Is My Business, releasing a board game and recording the album Xaviera! Which has spoken word thoughts on sex, her singing The Beatles' "Michele" and then some early JOI content including her having audio sex with Toronto rock star Ronnie Hawkins.
Martine Beswick (Zora in From Russia With Love, Paula Caplan in Thunderball, a cavewoman named Nupondi who battles Racquel Welch in One Million Years B. C., Sister Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, the Queen of Evil in Oliver Stone's Seizure, plus From a Whisper to a Scream, Critters 4 and the Fred Olen Rey movie Cyclone; more people should be worsipping her) is Xaviera, who has been flown to Hollywood to discuss the movie of her life that se doesn't want to make. She'd rather just have fun with her business, which she's still a very hands - and other body parts - on part of, servicing a cop played by Dick Miller in the first scene. Martine may be following Lynn Redgrave and Joey Heatherton in the role, but if she can't measure up to their acting - actually, she totally does - she's more willing to toss off her clothes.
Warkoff Brothers Studios - run by Phil Silvers! - wants to get the signature from her to mae this, but they want it cheap, so they use Lionel Lamely (West) to get her to fall in love. Come on, people. This is the Happy Hooker! She turns the tables by getting her girls to make the movie cheap and bringing young Warkoff Brothers exec Robby Rottman (Chris Lemmon) to her side, making an independent version of her film financed by horizontal assets.
Her ladies are Tanya Boyd from Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks; January 1977 Playboy Playmate of the Month Susan Kiger from Death Screams; 1969 Miss Utah Lindsay Bloom who was Maybelle on The Dukes of Hazzard; twins Candi and Randi Brough and Dana Feller, who was only in one other movie, the Cannon weirdness that is Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype.
This is the kind of movie that has Army Archerd play himself and satirize Hollywood while completely being Hollywood. But it's fun, all of the women have way more brains an agency than the men and maybe we can overlook that the end of the movie has Richard Deacon - yes, Mel Cooley from The Dick Van Dyke Show - and West dressed as women. And hey - Edie Adams is in this, too.
It's total fluff, but the kind of fluff that makes me happy. There's never any real tension, nothing other than the trans jokes at the end that are troublesome and carefree late 70s nudity. 15 year old me gives this movie unlimited stars; 49 year old me can't believe that I still watch and write about stuff like this.
*There are two other movies inspired by her, The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander and The Best Part of a Man.
Martine Beswick (Zora in From Russia With Love, Paula Caplan in Thunderball, a cavewoman named Nupondi who battles Racquel Welch in One Million Years B. C., Sister Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, the Queen of Evil in Oliver Stone's Seizure, plus From a Whisper to a Scream, Critters 4 and the Fred Olen Rey movie Cyclone; more people should be worsipping her) is Xaviera, who has been flown to Hollywood to discuss the movie of her life that se doesn't want to make. She'd rather just have fun with her business, which she's still a very hands - and other body parts - on part of, servicing a cop played by Dick Miller in the first scene. Martine may be following Lynn Redgrave and Joey Heatherton in the role, but if she can't measure up to their acting - actually, she totally does - she's more willing to toss off her clothes.
Warkoff Brothers Studios - run by Phil Silvers! - wants to get the signature from her to mae this, but they want it cheap, so they use Lionel Lamely (West) to get her to fall in love. Come on, people. This is the Happy Hooker! She turns the tables by getting her girls to make the movie cheap and bringing young Warkoff Brothers exec Robby Rottman (Chris Lemmon) to her side, making an independent version of her film financed by horizontal assets.
Her ladies are Tanya Boyd from Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks; January 1977 Playboy Playmate of the Month Susan Kiger from Death Screams; 1969 Miss Utah Lindsay Bloom who was Maybelle on The Dukes of Hazzard; twins Candi and Randi Brough and Dana Feller, who was only in one other movie, the Cannon weirdness that is Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype.
This is the kind of movie that has Army Archerd play himself and satirize Hollywood while completely being Hollywood. But it's fun, all of the women have way more brains an agency than the men and maybe we can overlook that the end of the movie has Richard Deacon - yes, Mel Cooley from The Dick Van Dyke Show - and West dressed as women. And hey - Edie Adams is in this, too.
It's total fluff, but the kind of fluff that makes me happy. There's never any real tension, nothing other than the trans jokes at the end that are troublesome and carefree late 70s nudity. 15 year old me gives this movie unlimited stars; 49 year old me can't believe that I still watch and write about stuff like this.
*There are two other movies inspired by her, The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander and The Best Part of a Man.
The best of the series... though that's not saying much
Wizard-827 December 2009
"The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood" was one of the first movies made by notorious producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus after they took over Cannon Studios. Even at this stage, they showed here that they could make a decent-looking movie on a low budget (it has the highest production values of the trilogy). There is also a lot of nudity and sex - I think it's safe to say this movie has more sex and nudity than the first two movies combined. And the script has some amusing in-jokes (Silvers' character name "Warkoff" is obviously a sly send-up of B movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff.)
Unfortunately, despite all this, the movie still doesn't add up to much. There may be all that sex and nudity, but it's directed with such an innocent attitude that it's not the least bit erotic. Silvers is wasted in a role that obviously didn't take long to film. West seems very embarrassed (his career was still in the toilet at the time.) But the biggest problem is that the movie doesn't have that much story. There's only half a story here, the rest being obvious filler.
Only for Golan and Globus fanatics who are determined to watch everything they produced.
Unfortunately, despite all this, the movie still doesn't add up to much. There may be all that sex and nudity, but it's directed with such an innocent attitude that it's not the least bit erotic. Silvers is wasted in a role that obviously didn't take long to film. West seems very embarrassed (his career was still in the toilet at the time.) But the biggest problem is that the movie doesn't have that much story. There's only half a story here, the rest being obvious filler.
Only for Golan and Globus fanatics who are determined to watch everything they produced.
See Batman naked!
spfi27 December 2001
How do you give a logical review to such a silly movie? The "funny" part is that it actually tries to be serious at times. Though the Happy Hooker is pleasant to look at (since she's nude most of the time)the rest is a BORE. Poor Adam West, (TV's Batman) proves once again he can't get a good part. Leap'n Lizards Batman!
MAKE IT STOP!!!!!
Gil-4424 March 2001
If your idea of fun is watching Adam West dance and simulate receiving oral sex, by all means, enjoy. Otherwise, this may very well be the worst movie I've seen made in the 80's. And I've seen SQUEEZE PLAY.
Phil Silvers was in this, too. And Rob Petrie's boss.
Phil Silvers was in this, too. And Rob Petrie's boss.
My publisher says my book will be on the best-seller list forever; of course, he also says that he can levitate if he focuses really hard...
TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews9 April 2010
This is the only one in the series I've seen. Maybe I'd like it if that wasn't so. I researched the woman and the book briefly before putting this on; it's considered to be an important part of why sex became a less strained subject(although we appear to be moving backwards on that now, as more people are focusing on their careers than their love-lives), and I can certainly appreciate that. But this is 81 minutes of crap. It has nothing to say(other than perhaps "Hollywood is sleazy", however, even in 1980, that was old news, downright ancient), it has no purpose, and other than camp, it has nothing to offer the viewer. Well, T&A, obviously, though hardly any of it is erotic or attractive(it seems to be played for laughs, instead). This is about making a film out of the novel... you know, what the first of these movies were. That right there is way too complex and meta for this. I'm not saying something like this can't be smart, no, I'm pointing out that it insists that it can't be. Other than one, *maybe* two lines in this whole thing, the dialog is embarrassing and awful. Too little in this is rational; why would the producer think a picture claiming that the Church is responsible for her prostitution would do well, wouldn't they barely be able to release it? Did these three earn a lot? I hear that this is the best, the one that is put together with most skill, and that is just depressing. The acting is terrible and flat(I guess Batman *wasn't* gay... huh). Every joke and gag is powerfully unfunny, and this literally uses the freakin' "waaah-waaah"-trumpet, yeugh. This uses exaggerated cartoon sound effects. No, I've seen worse, I've hated flicks to a greater extent than this, but that's like saying that there are worse, smellier garbage dumps out there. There is some nudity and getting' it on in this. Only about half of it is hot. I recommend this to... I don't know, fans of the first two, and of exploitation cinema. 1/10
A fun sexploitation comedy with a 70s feel to it and an entertaining premise
kevin_robbins27 July 2023
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980) is a movie that was recently available on Tubi. The storyline follows a prostitute who writes a book that does well and goes mainstream. She signs a movie deal that falls apart so she decides to make the movie on her own. Her former investor tries to sabotage her project but she fights through the attempts to try and make a movie as successful as her book.
This movie is directed by Alan Roberts (The Sexpert) and stars Martine Beswick (Thunderball), Chris Lemmon (Wishmaster), Adam West (Batman), Dick Miller (Gremlins), Phil Silvers (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and Richard Deacon (Birds).
This has a surprisingly impressive cast. Seeing Adam West do a soft porn movie really threw me off. His pool scene had me cracking up. The storyline has a 70s grindhouse feel to it and is fun to watch unfold. The circumstances are really unpredictable. As you would expect, there's a ton of sex and nudity in here, at times awkwardly so; although, the jungle scene was awesome.
Overall, this is a fun sexploitation comedy with a 70s feel to it and an entertaining premise. I would score this a 4/10 and recommend seeing once.
This movie is directed by Alan Roberts (The Sexpert) and stars Martine Beswick (Thunderball), Chris Lemmon (Wishmaster), Adam West (Batman), Dick Miller (Gremlins), Phil Silvers (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and Richard Deacon (Birds).
This has a surprisingly impressive cast. Seeing Adam West do a soft porn movie really threw me off. His pool scene had me cracking up. The storyline has a 70s grindhouse feel to it and is fun to watch unfold. The circumstances are really unpredictable. As you would expect, there's a ton of sex and nudity in here, at times awkwardly so; although, the jungle scene was awesome.
Overall, this is a fun sexploitation comedy with a 70s feel to it and an entertaining premise. I would score this a 4/10 and recommend seeing once.
High value of camp!
niels-425 November 2006
This film deserves credit for its high camp value. It is a film very typical of the early 1980's desires to mix glamor, comedy and camp. This film has a definite sexploitation angle. The beautiful Martine Beswick delivers a playful tongue in cheek performance as the happy hooker who travels to Hollywood to get her memoirs filmed. I can not imagine Ms. Beswick toke this film serious and decided upon to play it for laughs. She got style and carries off some of the sex scenes without loosing her dignity. If you value high camp this film is worth seeing. You will not be disappointed. There are many silly one liners, hard to believe dialog, glamorous starlets and men chasing them for sex. The film moves quickly and never dwells too much on the same scene. I give this film a vote of 8 simply because it has all the ingredients of a campy b film classic. And if you like these kind of guilty pleasures you will not be disappointed.
Dreadful...
Gregster-510 May 2002
This movie purports to show us the background to how the orginal "Happy Hooker" movie was made (with Lynn Redgrave in the original). Hollywood parties abound with producers telling Xavier how successful the movie will be. Imn fact, both movie, this and original look like they were made on about $30 budget, with compellingly awful 1970's cheapo production values. Martine Beswick has a nice figure, but hardly worth the intellectual insult required to make it to those scenes. Absolutely ghastly in about every sense.
How A-Dult (as we say here) can this get?????
sethn17210 June 2006
By the way, that's A-dult (A like "ham," dult like the regular saying).
Anyhow, "The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood" is one of those films that are like, "Uhh...I really shouldn't be seeing this stuff!!!!!" Yes, I know this movie is chock full of nudity. I can tell because I heard that Batman is nude in this movie! (The Fox Batman, as you can tell; not the WB Batman!) How surprising, I may never see Batman again! "Holy (insert any word here), Batman! How can you get to that point in your career!," as Robin would say. (I'm sure he'd be nude, too).
That's my reaction to this naughty little flick. Heck, even those bots of MST3K fame would never riff it, because it's that naughty! While this movie gets ten stars, you'll need to bless your home theater center after this for that bad thing you watched on it!!!!! Then, you'll need to find a better flick than this!
Anyhow, "The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood" is one of those films that are like, "Uhh...I really shouldn't be seeing this stuff!!!!!" Yes, I know this movie is chock full of nudity. I can tell because I heard that Batman is nude in this movie! (The Fox Batman, as you can tell; not the WB Batman!) How surprising, I may never see Batman again! "Holy (insert any word here), Batman! How can you get to that point in your career!," as Robin would say. (I'm sure he'd be nude, too).
That's my reaction to this naughty little flick. Heck, even those bots of MST3K fame would never riff it, because it's that naughty! While this movie gets ten stars, you'll need to bless your home theater center after this for that bad thing you watched on it!!!!! Then, you'll need to find a better flick than this!
Good naughty fun
Woodyanders1 June 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Sassy and audacious famous madam Xaviera Hollander (a splendidly sexy, saucy, and spirited portrayal by Martine Beswick) goes to Hollywood to supervise the adaptation of her bestselling book into a movie. After being taken advantage of by shady showbiz types, Xaviera decides to make her film as an independent feature by raising money the old-fashioned way. Director Alan Roberts, working from a blithely inane script by Devin Goldenberg, relates the cheerfully silly story at a constant snappy pace and maintains a playfully tongue-in-cheek tone throughout while delivering a bunch of amusingly lowbrow gags and oodles of tasty female nudity (even the insanely gorgeous Beswick shows off her sizzling hot stuff). Moreover, the game cast have a field day with the broad material: Adam West contributes an effectively slimy turn as dashing, but sleazy and duplicitous producer Lionel Lamely, Phil Silvers is a riot as cranky trash movie mogul William B. Warkoff, Richard Deacon has a ball as crude and boorish producer Joseph Rottman, Chris Lemmon gives a likable performance as nice guy eager beaver young executive Robby Rottman, and Edie Adams has a funny bit as clueless talk show host Rita Beater. This picture further benefits from a bevy of beautiful ladies who include Lindsay Bloom as snippy starlet Laurie, Susan Kiger as the luscious Susie, Lisa London as the daffy Laurie, Tanya Boyd as the sultry Sylvie, and K.C. Winkler as the delectable Amber. Stephen M. Gray's polished cinematography makes nice occasional use of dewy soft focus and artful dissolves. Tom Perry's jaunty score likewise does the trick. Besides, it's impossible to dislike a picture that features Dick Miller as a New York City cop customer who we get to see in the sack with Beswicke and the gust-busting sight of Adam West in drag. An amiably asinine hoot.
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