Product Details

• Actors: Ultra Violet, Andy Davis, Reid Smith, Jeremy Stockwell
• Directors: Gene Nash
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: VCI Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 27, 2010
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0036264N6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,456 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Dinah East" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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DINAH EAST - DVD Movie

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Something to delight every fetish!, May 31, 2008

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R. M. Desjardins "R. Mark Desjardins" (Vancouver, B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews
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Dinah East is one of those rare cinematic romps that appeals to absolutely everybody; hot-blooded heterosexuals, lusty lesbians, horny homos, titillating transvestites, and even nefarious necrophiliacs!
Written and produced by Gene Nash in 1970, starring renown transvestite, Jeremy Stockwell, and featuring Andy Warhol alumni, Ultra Violet, the film parallels several key aspects of Mae West's career. It is this connection, however tenuous, that makes this long unavailable camp classic so controversial.
Advertisements for Dinah East claim the movie was pulled from distribution after Mae West filed a successful lawsuit stating the film slandered her name, and then proceeded to buy and destroy as many prints of the film she could find.
However, the following facts seem to be at odds with these claims. In 1982, Gene Nash told the LA Times that he had given Mae West and Paul Novak a private screening of the film in 1970. West found the film entertaining and made a few suggestions to "beef up the dialogue" which Nash was unable to do, as the filming had wrapped up.
Certainly Variety would have run a story on any Mae West lawsuit. Stanley Musgrove who was her publicist at the time would have brought the topic up with friends, and Kevin Thomas who was a film critic at the LA Times would most likely have known about any such lawsuit as well. Since no word of this was ever brought forth, it is highly possible that West never brought about a lawsuit.
The Mae West overtures aside, Dinah East stands on its own merits. The characters are colourful and engaging, the sets are over the top and the scene set in a gay bar complete with a nude go-go boy in a cage is delightfully wacky. Good humored fun and a sensitive examination of a subject that would have been handled in a tacky way by a less enlightened director.
What is not generally known about Gene Nash is that he had a show business background and worked with Eddy Cantor in his later years, once filling in for him and nobody noticed the difference. Nash also produced, directed as well as wrote the movie screenplay and all of the songs for the film, What Am I Bid?, featuring the legendary country and western entertainer, Leroy Van Dyke. Other stars who appeared in the film include Al Hirt, Tex Ritter and Faron Young.
My request for information about Gene Nash went unanswered by Paula Stewart, credited as Co-Producer of Dinah East. Stewart, currently a weekly host on KCLA FM in Los Angeles, is working on a biography of Lucille Ball.
Dinah East is a blast from the past that is still fun and essential viewing for today's jaded sensibilities.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dinah East, May 3, 2008

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C. Cullen - See all my reviews
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Only problem is that the original source seems to be video. I was hoping for a restored transfer from film but I suppose as it is a rare film that was the best source available.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite porn. Not quite comedy. Not quite right., August 22, 2008

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Richard Edlin - See all my reviews
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This is a badly conceived, directed and acted piece and a shoddy piece that will have you laughing from beginning to end. It comes from a simpler age when audiences were easier to shock, and some of the scandalous revelations in this film wouldn't raise an eyebrow now.
Watch to the end of the credits for the shocking revelation that Dinah is actually played by a man! a fact that had been very graphically revealed at the start of the film so I don't know who they thought they were going to surprise.
An hilarious film which will have you roaring with laughter as each outrage is presented.