Abstract
This chapter focuses on Dors’ performance as a has-been star in a supporting role in Joan Crawford’s British thriller Berserk! (1967). It describes how American producer Herman Cohen and British producer-turned-director Jim O’Connelly allowed Dors to retain her sex symbol image in this exploitation film. Yet analysis of several of Dors’ key scenes as a loud-mouthed magician’s assistant reveals more than a hint of mockery about the way she’s presented here. The conflicting ambitions of dignifying and demeaning a faded star in an exploitation film are seen to operate here. Consequently, the curious mixture of admiration and contempt for Dors creates an unsettling and ambiguous cinematic experience, producing laughter and scorn as much as shock and horror.
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