Episode 21: Dixie Ray Hollywood Star (1983)

Beyond the Beaded Curtain

Dixie Ray Hollywood Star is close to enough to a “regular” detective movie that it was recut and released in an R-rated version. Kinda neat! If you trimmed down most of our movies to secure an R-rating, you’d barely have enough left for a short, let alone a full film!

And, like plenty of other examples of detective noir, Dixie Ray only kind of makes sense. This movie is hoping you’re too distracted by all the sex to try to make much sense of the plot. That trick doesn’t work on us, though! More than twenty episodes in, so we barely even notice the sex anymore. It scarcely even registers for us. And that’s really what you want in a critical examination of adult cinema: critics who barely talk about the sex but will spend half an hour talking about a detective’s anachronistic water cooler when we run out of story. You’re welcome!

Cast and crew:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085446/

Full movie:

https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5870ed372d22c