Directors Allen Arkush and Joe Dante, both making their directorial debuts after editing countless trailers for Corman and working from a hip, clever script by Patrick Hobby, don't miss a trick with this often wickedly witty send-up of "good taste and high production values be damned" nickel'n'dime film-making: the brisk pace, playfully tongue-in-cheek self-deprecating tone, overripe hambone acting, and constant onslaught of cheap, but amusing gags are nicely sustained throughout. A showdown between Candy and the killer occurs directly underneath the legendary Hollywood sign. Alas, a vicious unknown killer has been randomly picking off actress on the film sets (one murder is actually caught on film, thus becoming a grisly snuff reel!).
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Candy toils in one tawdry potboiler after another (she barely manages to survive a particularly hellish one week shoot in the Phillippines, where she's gleefully gang-raped by a bunch of greasy, overenthusiastic libidinous male extras!), eventually becoming Miracle Pictures' latest junk movie queen. Perky, lovely, blonde-tressed 70's trash movie favorite Candice Rialson gives an energetic, wholly engaging performance as Candy Wednesday, a sweet, wet-behind-the-ears ingénue fresh off the bus from Indiana who goes to Los Angeles to make it big in the movie biz the aspiring actress winds up scoring a gig as a stunt woman for prolific one feature a week schlock studio outfit Miracle Pictures (their motto: "If it's a good picture, it's a Miracle!"). Naturally, the net product of this ultimate in-jokey drive-in flick pastiche is a wonderfully sloppy, screwy and raucous serving of anything-goes momentum propelled lunacy. At just 82-minutes the film flies by rather quick and even with its flaws the thing is still worth watching.Ī surprisingly sly and deliciously dead on-target parody of "to hell with substance and style, let's just get this sucker in the can and toss in every last crassly exploitative thing we can think of" quick'n'dirty no-budget Grade Z film-making, a true marvel of cut'n'paste cost-cutting ingenuity that was promptly shot in a scant ten days on a paltry $60, 000 budget for Roger Corman's always dependably tacky New World Pictures. The supporting players all do justice to their parts. Rialson is also extremely charming (and beautiful) in her role and she really makes you believe that she's just some young girl who gets in over her head. Also priceless is the work from Dick Miller who hands down steals the picture in his role as the agent. The scene dealing with a bank robbery is just priceless. These spoofs are actually somewhat clever but I think the film works best early on when the woman first arrives in Hollywood. We get a spoof of Philapeano movies, action movies, slashers and just about every other popular thing at the drive-in. I say this because when you're spoofing the entire drive-in genre, after a while it's clear that you're just spoofing the same type of stuff only with a different setting. Overall I think fans of 70's drive-in pictures should get a kick out of this but at the same time there's no question that the majority of the film is just the same note over and over. Hollywood BOULEVARD's history is actually much more entertaining than the film itself so those interested in the movie should certainly hear how this picture came to be and what type of budget the directors were working with.
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After several doors are slammed in her face, she eventually picks up an agent (Dick Miller) who gets her working at Miracle Pictures but soon a maniac is knocking off their stars. Candy (Candice Rialson) arrives in Hollywood and before long she realizes that becoming a star isn't going to be so easy. Hollywood Boulevard (1976) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Fun homage to the trash pictures of the 70s from directors Joe Dante and Allan Arkush.