"Screaming Mimi" is an inept movie in most every way. It's cheap nonsense...from start to finish.
When the story begins, some maniac attacks Virginia (Anita Ekberg) and tries to kill her with a knife. She's saved by her step-brother who shoots the attacker. But now Virginia's lost her mind...and is sent away to a sanitarium. Her therapist there is a nut-case himself, a Svengali-like guy (Harry Townes) who is a a whole lotta french fries short of a Happy Meal. The 'therapist' tells her step-brother that Virginia has died and now Virginia and this looney relocate and rename themselves....and Virginia is now Yolanda, an exotic dancer! But there's much more...and it's mostly nonsense.
The script looks like it was made up by a couple very talented chimps. It just doesn't make much sense and the story is convoluted and bizarre to say the least. Add to that Gypsy Rose Lee playing one of the major players in the film and there certainly is NOTHING like it...thank goodness!
In addition to a dopey script, we are to believe that the Swedish bombshell, Ekberg, playing the step-sister of a guy who isn't the least bit Swedish and a totally different accent is just weird. We also are to believe that Yolanda's dancing is very sexy....which, amazingly, it isn't. Despite Ekberg being gorgeous, the dance is more ridiculous than seductive. Overall, a cheap and dumb little film.
When the story begins, some maniac attacks Virginia (Anita Ekberg) and tries to kill her with a knife. She's saved by her step-brother who shoots the attacker. But now Virginia's lost her mind...and is sent away to a sanitarium. Her therapist there is a nut-case himself, a Svengali-like guy (Harry Townes) who is a a whole lotta french fries short of a Happy Meal. The 'therapist' tells her step-brother that Virginia has died and now Virginia and this looney relocate and rename themselves....and Virginia is now Yolanda, an exotic dancer! But there's much more...and it's mostly nonsense.
The script looks like it was made up by a couple very talented chimps. It just doesn't make much sense and the story is convoluted and bizarre to say the least. Add to that Gypsy Rose Lee playing one of the major players in the film and there certainly is NOTHING like it...thank goodness!
In addition to a dopey script, we are to believe that the Swedish bombshell, Ekberg, playing the step-sister of a guy who isn't the least bit Swedish and a totally different accent is just weird. We also are to believe that Yolanda's dancing is very sexy....which, amazingly, it isn't. Despite Ekberg being gorgeous, the dance is more ridiculous than seductive. Overall, a cheap and dumb little film.