Hollywood Babylon

Feb 9, 1972

1h 27m

★ 3.8

The Down and Dirty Side of the Dream Makers

Overview

This faux cautionary documentary features film clips and often humorous softcore reenactments of several notorious celebrity sex scandals from the golden age of Hollywood.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Institute for Adult Education

Aquarius Releasing

Hollywood Babylon Trailers

Cast

Big Daddy

Roger Gentry

Charlie Chaplin

Myron Griffin

Wally Reid

Marland Proctor

Party Guest / Marlene Dietrich

Uschi Digard

Party Girl / Mistress / Nightclub Performer / Orgy Girl on Set

Maria Arnold

Ashley Phillips

Girl at Arbuckle's Party / Whipped Girl

Jane Allyson

Girl at Party

Nora Wieternik

Party Girl / Mildred Harris / Nightclub Patron

Suzanne Fields

Bunny Bronstein

Waiter

Al Ward

Marlene's Discoverer / Doctor

Matt Hewitt

Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.

7.3

Salaam Bombay!

Aug 24, 1988

Young Krishna is abandoned at the Apollo Circus by his mother, who informs him that he can only return home when he can afford ₹500 for his brother's bicycle that he destroyed. The circus leaves Krishna behind and he travels to Bombay, where he delivers tee and befriends a heroin addict and a young prostitute. Krishna dreams of saving ₹500 to return home, but Bombay street life isn't easy.

5.7

Big Bad Mama

Sep 19, 1974

Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.

7.5

Mescaline

Feb 3, 2018

Under the influence of a hallucinogenic cactus, a couple of French comes to introduce, like a virus, into a Mexican landscape whose practices, codes and uses they do not know.

7.2

Pusher II

Dec 25, 2004

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

6.4

Freeway

Aug 23, 1996

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

6.8

Wonder Boys

Feb 22, 2000

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.

6.5

The Knock Out Cop

Oct 25, 1973

Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples.

6.2

Flatfoot in Africa

Mar 22, 1978

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

5.9

O

Aug 31, 2001

Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player Odin James has the adoration of all, including the team's coach and the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi. Odin's troubled friend Hugo, the coach's son, deeply resentful of his father's preference of Odin on and off the court, plots a diabolical scheme to sow the seed of mistrust between O and Desi, setting in motion a disturbing chain of events which erupts into a firestorm of breathtaking intensity.

6.5

Tideland

Oct 13, 2005

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.

4.3

Breach of Trust

Jan 1, 1995

For opposite reasons, an undercover federal agent and a small time hood join forces to take on a union of drug lords and dirty cops.

6.8

Payback

Feb 5, 1999

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

6.7

James Dean

Aug 4, 2001

The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant.

5.0

Body of Evidence

Jan 15, 1993

When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him. District attorney Robert Garrett decides to prosecute Rebecca, arguing that she deliberately engaged in wild sex with the old man to overexcite him and lead to his premature death. Defense attorney Frank Dulaney defends Rebecca in court while getting sucked into a dangerous affair with her.

6.6

2:37

May 26, 2006

A contemporary, ensemble drama that tells the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a tragedy will occur, affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers.

6.6

Alpha Dog

Jan 27, 2006

Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and hold him hostage.