2. Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970)
It's A Half-Assed Sequel To...Valley Of The Dolls (1967) Yeah, we know, since
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls came three years after
Valley Of The Dolls, it's pretty obviously a sequel. Well, not entirely, given that it's only a half-assed one at best, and "unofficial" in every sense of the world. The original script for
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls was intentionally written to be a sequel to the former with several characters even set to reprise their roles. Jacqueline Susann, author of the original novel, objected to the material, and that was that: all the character's names were changed and the actors who had originally signed on to reprise their roles were fired. Despite the fact that every human being who went to see the movie thought it was a sequel anyway, it
technically isn't, a point which is emphasised by the fact that it plays with a disclaimer at the beginning explaining that it's not a sequel. I It was also written, interestingly enough, by infamous movie critic Roger Ebert, who would have presumably given it his trademark two thumbs down in a scathing review.