Product Details

• Actors: John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings
• Directors: Jack Haley Jr.
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: January 18, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302874629
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,948 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even Campier Than "Valley"!, June 11, 2000

By A Customer

If you liked the campy melodrama of Jacqueline Susann's "Valley of the Dolls", you'll LOVE its follow up "The Love Machine"! Starring a young Dyan Cannon as the intellectually unparalleled (stares at telephone and asks it - "Are you a recording?") wife of an elderly TV network head honcho, the movie chornicles the bedhopping of TV network golden boy Robin Stone. With a slew of non-stereotyped supporting characters (i.e. a flaming gay fashion designer, a featherbrained fashion model, and a crude Jewish comic), "The Love Machine", like "Valley", tries to be a hard hitting drama, but ends up being a campy, psychadelic time capsule of early 70's fashion, music, and decor. Long out of print, this fab flick has finally been rereleased for a whole new audience to enjoy.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mildly engaging sleaze-o-rama, July 18, 2000

By A Customer

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This is NOT in the same campy league of "Valley of theDolls", .... That film was hilarious, full of bad acting, great dialogue, and lots of funny, over-the-top set pieces. "Valley" has a cult following among "bad film" fans, and deservedly so. This one is engaging for its sleazy script about a good looking reporter who scratches and claws his way to the top of network television and his circle of beautiful, lusty women, gay wannabe lovers, cutthroat executives, etc. The whole thing could have been a large budget handsome film drama but, instead, looks like it was filmed on videotape. The actor who plays the lead is very bland and almost feminine in appearance-hardly the irresistable sexual dynamo required by the script. There is lots of bad acting here but Dyan Cannon and, believe it or not, comedian Shecky Greene give good performances. Everyone else is from the "I began my career as a beautiful model and now I am trying acting" school. I enjoyed the film as a mindless diversion but am unlikely to watch it again and again as I have with "Valley of the Dolls". It is too bad that no one has ever made a good film based on a Jacqueline Susann novel because her books ARE page turners and she does know show business, having been an actress before turning to writing. I find that her novels are engaging, well plotted, and do have something to say about those whose values are corrupted by the love of fame, power, and fortune. They are also vastly entertaining-a quality that this film never achieves. A much lesser film - in terms of entertainment value- than its sleazier, campier, outrageous sister "Valley of the dolls" but worth a view-with plenty of popcorn.

1.0 out of 5 stars Never saw this movie, The LP is the only thing I listen to, March 27, 2009

By	Drew Hutchinson "PlanetDrew80" (Canal Fulton OH) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My dad has seen this movie when it was in theathers, but he has not rented this movie for me and my 2 brothers to watch. So thats the only review I can write. But he did have this on LP, and use to play this alote on his turn table, and he still has it, and can still listen to it if I can get him a turn table some time like Fatherday weekend. Dionne Warwick sang the song she moving on which is not on any of her greatest hits Cds, and the rest of the soundtreak is all instramentle.