"The Love Machine" (1971)

[jaragon]

"The Love Machine" (1971)  is another Jaqueline Sussan camp classic but it's not as funny as "Valley of the Dolls"   Robin Stone ( John Philip Law) sleeps his way to the top of the television industry .  Dyan Cannon is sexy funny as the wife of one of the network executives.   David Hemmings plays Jerry  a gay fashion photographer who lust after Stone .  The main problem with the film is that  John Philip Law was handsome but cold.   In the movies most shocking scene he picks up a hooker and beats the crap out of her hen he suggest he is a closet queen.  I think the hooker was suppose to be transgender.   For the sensitive among you the F word is used a lot .   The movie lacks the over the top camp which makes " Dolls" a classic. Directed by Jack Haley Jr.   Dionne Warwick sings the theme song.

 

[DougieB]

I've only seen parts of it on TV, which means it must have been heavily edited. John Phillip Law was a much better "love machine" as Pygar, the blind angel in Barbarella. I was so jealous of Jane Fonda when she was picking feathers out of her hair the next morning. 

[jaragon]

2 hours ago, DougieB said:

I've only seen parts of it on TV, which means it must have been heavily edited. John Philip Law was a much better "love machine" as Pygar, the blind angel in Barbarella. I was so jealous of Jane Fonda when she was picking feathers out of her hair the next morning. 

You can find in on line for free if you google it- it's not a very good film but  there is plenty of camp- the scene with the hooker is specially interesting and would word a lot better if she turned out to be a he.    Law was sexier as Simbad