Product Details

• Actors: Martine Beswick, Chris Lemmon, Adam West, Richard Deacon, Phil Silvers
• Directors: Alan Roberts, Nicholas Sgarro, William A. Levey
• Writers: Alan Roberts, Barney Cohen, Bob Kaufman, Devin Goldenberg, Robin Moore
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: July 17, 2007
• Run Time: 273 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000PMFS1Y
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33,529 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Happy Hooker Trilogy (The Happy Hooker / The Happy Hooker Goes To Washington / The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

You may hate yourself in the morning, but from the funky '70s fashions to a whirlpool sex scene with Adam West (holy career nadir, Batman!), this Happy Hooker three-way is B-movie bliss! Georgy Girl turns call girl in The Happy Hooker (1975). Lynn Redgrave stars as Xavier Hollander, the plucky and cheerfully independent madam whose 1971 autobiography sold a staggering 17 million copies. The series takes a brisk, burlesque turn in The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977), starring Joey Heatheron (that's more like it) as Xavier, "an honest hooker looking for a little peace" who is subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Select Committee on Sexual Excess in America in the wake of congressional sexual scandals. In The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980), a Hollywood producer (West) does to Xavier (Martine Beswick this time) what she does to her clients, and she takes revenge by forming her own production company to bring her life story to the screen. Anyone seeking serious softcore will not be happy with Hooker--these films are more comic than carnal. But if you have a fetish for slumming character actors and comedians, this trilogy amply delivers. Washington features Joe E. Ross (the "ooh-ooh" guy from Car 54, Where Are You?), Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian), comedian Phil Foster, Larry Storch (F-Troop), David White (Larry Tate on Bewitched), flamboyant entertainer Rip Taylor, Billy Barty doing an unaccountable James Cagney imitation, and even "Cheswick" from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as a network television censor. In addition to West, Hollywood features Richard Deacon (Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show), Edie Adams as herself, Phil Silvers as a wheelchair-bound unscrupulous movie tycoon, and incomparable cult-fave Dick Miller (A Bucket of Blood) as one of Xavier's customers. Pleasures come no guiltier than these relics from a more sexually libertine time. --Donald Liebenson

Product Description

Disc 1: The Happy Hooker P&S

Disc 2 Side A: The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington WS Disc 2 Side B: The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood WS

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Im not sure what I just saw!, April 29, 2002

By	Andrew J Bergen (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Happy Hooker [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie was a story about a woman who breaks up with her fiance and finds herself in an American city sleeping with many different men. She deciedes instead of doing it for free she should start charging for her services. She eventually becomes a madame and ends up in jail. This is the basis premise for the movie. There is not much else to this movie. I found it to be funny. It was not meant to be a comedy. I think it was made in the seventies. It has all sorts of cheese ball outfits. It is the perfect stereotype of a bad 1970 era movie. The style reminds me of Shaft.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Joey is lovier than ever!, February 1, 2004

By	Dr. L "Best In Manhattan!" (New York City, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Happy Hooker Goes to Washington [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Joey Heatherton brings her radiant persona to he big screen in this great film! Looking beauiful and sexy she protrays Xavier Hollander like no one has! lot of sex and comedy in this wonderful film! Should have garnered an Oscar nomination for Ms. Heatherton!

3.0 out of 5 stars "The Happy Hooker" Movie is Not Like the Best Selling Novel by Xaviara Hllander, April 25, 2009

By	Lou Cole "Lou Cole" - See all my reviews

In the early to mid-1970's a novel hit the best sellers list called "The Happy Hooker." It was an autobiography written by Xaviara Hollander in the 1970s and was published by Dell Publications. It became a Number One Best Seller. The Happy Hooker: My Own Story

Xaviara Hollander came from Holland. She was the daughter of a doctor. For a time when she first came to the United Stes, she was working as a translator for the United Nations in New York City.

She had been through some failed relationships and soon found herself self-employed and later running a luctrative escort service eventually having a serice on Park Avenue in New York City in the late 1970's.

She had hired a technician to install a series of hidden cameras in the various rooms of her establishment so she can monitor as to what was going on in the rooms in case something should go wrong between the girls and the customers requiring her to intervene.

Unknown to Xaviara Hollander, the technician, however, had installed a transmiter in the cameras so that he could pick up on the transmissions and look in on what was going on.

Thigs backfired as the TV sets of the people in the area were also picking up on the transmissions on the UHF fequency.

Teh police received a number of complaints and located the source of the transmissions. The New York Police Department then raided the establishment of Xaviera Hollander. She later was even deported from theUnited States since she was not a citizen.

This made the media, and as a result, Xaviera Halander wrote a book which was published by Dell Publications in the 1970's and became a Number One Best Seller.

The book sarts with Xaviara's place being raided by the police, and then she goes back to how it all began back in her early days in Holland.

The movie version that stared Lynn Redgrave as Xaviara Hollander was turned into a comedy and got paned by the critics at the time for not being true to the book.

The two sequels made were also comedies: "The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington" staring Joey Heatherton as Xaviara Hollander as she and her lawyer played by 'George Hamilton take on a convervative U.S. Senate Committee on morale decency and family values, which aslo has Ray Walston as one of the senators. The other sequel was "The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood" stars Martine Beswick as Xaviara Hollander who takes on the Hollywood machine pitting her wits against Hollywood bad guys played by Aam West and Richard Deacon.

The novel "The Happy Hooker": The Happy Hooker: My Own Story

As I said,, the book was a bes seller, but the critics did not like the movie at all. It was not true to the book at al. It was turned into a comedy, which the book was not. The two movies that followed were out and out camp comedies.