Sextette
1978 US musical comedy film by Ken Hughes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sextette is a 1978 American musical comedy film directed by Ken Hughes, and starring Mae West,[5] alongside an ensemble cast including Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper and Walter Pidgeon.[5]
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Directed by | Ken Hughes |
Screenplay by | Herbert Baker |
Story by | Charlotte Francis |
Based on | Sextette by Mae West |
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Cinematography | James Crabe |
Edited by | Argyle Nelson Jr. |
Music by | Artie Butler |
Distributed by | Crown International Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4 million[2]ā$8 million[3][4] |
Box office | $50,000[4] |
Produced by Daniel Briggs, Robert Sullivan and Harry Weiss[5] for the production company Briggs and Sullivan, the screenplay was dramatized for the screen by Herbert Baker, from West's final stage performance play of the same title, later renamed Sextet, which West herself had written (based on a story idea by Charlotte Francis) and originally performed in 1961.[6] Costumes were designed by Edith Head.
Filmed at Paramount Studios, Sextette was West's final film, as well as that of Pidgeon and Moon. Featured were cameos by Rona Barrett, Regis Philbin and George Raft, all of whom appeared as themselves. The film was a major box office bomb, grossing just $50,000 against an estimated budget of $4ā8 million.