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I'm a big fan of camp humor, so this one is admirable if only for its effort. This was made back when a movie was entertaining and fun.

Distributed by Paramount, it was avant garde for "legit" films. A Happy Days era Ron Howard has a speaking part, a pre-Laverne Cindy Williams has a major part, and I could swear that the "lesbian/chorus girl" is actually a pre-Clint Eastwood Sondra Locke. If you watch her in the chorus line and subsequent parts, she's actually better than in her other movies!

I doubt that you can find the movie packaged as a VHS or DVD, but it "is available" digitally if you know where to look.

I'm amazed that this movie was ever made and NOT surprised that it wasn't made my any of the big studios -- they're simply too stupid to understand or appreciate it. Everything about this film defies convention, in a smart, funny and effective way. The people who disapprove of this movie are likely the very people whom it is satirizing. The editing, directing, acting and sound editing are marvelous and refreshing. The dialogue is wonderfully acerbic and sarcastic. I only wish I could find in on DVD. As is, the only copy I have is a VHS taped from commercial TV. If you get the chance to to see it, by all means do. It's a rare pleasure.

UPDATE: Thanks to modern technology, I have now burned my VHS copy to DVD for preservation. As of February, 2006, the film is STILL NOT AVAILABLE anywhere. The viewer who wrote that he saw it on late night TV with Elvira is correct -- that's the copy of the screening I have, complete with her interspersed comments (and cleavage).