4/10
This is a review of the unique charter edition for this flick . . .
14 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
. . . which screened at midnight, May 14, 2021. This airing includes the full spectrum of film distortion, from scrambled pixels to blurred and missing images. Though it's somewhat intriguing to watch a polo player riding an invisible horse (around 32:48), statistical sampling indicates this charter version of WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? Is missing (literally) 96.3% of its visual content and 98.1% of its sound (that is, about 49 of every 50 syllables are M. I. A.). Probably 4 of 10 is way too high of a rating for such a broadcast, but I have not yet figured out how to enter negative numbers here. Perhaps the host's introduction gives some clue as to what this story is about, but spectrum censors him as well. From what I can see, some director dude picks up a waitress at the Hollywood Brown Derby and drives her to a gala movie premier in a junker that he buys from a random motorist for 50 bucks (or $11,909.23, adjusted for inflation). After his server becomes a star and has someone else's baby, he shoots himself in her house. Maybe this movie is available in some other venue besides spectrum, but that will not address the loss of one-time-only live events, such as the death of Norman Lloyd. Surviving in some sort of quadriplegic state for 79 years after tumbling off the Statue of Liberty in the SABOTEUR finale, Mr. Lloyd deserves more respect than a charter hatchet job. Com. Cast X-Infinity never seems to have this sort of problem!
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