The read
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel The Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down without a fight.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes52%
Metacritic40/100
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
186 audience votes
Key crew
- Larry L. KingScreenplay
- Peter MastersonScreenplay
- Colin HigginsScreenplay
- Colin HigginsDirector
- Patrick WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Dolly PartonMona Stangley
- Burt ReynoldsSheriff Ed Earl Dodd
- Dom DeLuiseMelvin P. Thorpe
- Charles DurningGovernor of Texas
- Jim NaborsDeputy Fred
- Robert MandanSenator Wingwood
- Lois NettletonDulcie Mae
- Theresa MerrittJewel
- Noah Beery Jr.Edsel
- Raleigh BondMayor
- Barry CorbinC.J.
- Ken MageeMansel
Stills
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Themes
governorcrusaderbrotheltexasmusicalbased on play or musicalconservativeprostitutiontv reportermadamebustycat house