Lorna (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Lorna


caption = Theatrical poster to "Lorna" (1964)
director = Russ Meyer
producer = Eve Meyer
Russ Meyer
writer = James Griffith
Russ Meyer
starring = Lorna Maitland
Mark Bradley
James Rucker
Hal Hopper
Doc Scortt
Althea Currier
F. Rufus Owens
Frank Bolger
Ken Parker
James Griffith
music = Hal Hopper (title song)
James Griffith (uncredited)
cinematography = Russ Meyer
editing =
distributor = Eve Productions Inc.
released = September 11, 1964
runtime = 78 min.
language = English
budget = $37,000
imdb_id = 0058301
amg_id = 1:70483
preceded_by =
followed_by = |

"Lorna" is a 1964 film by Russ Meyer. Shot mainly on the small main street that runs through the town of Locke, California in September 1963, this was Meyer's first film in 35 mm. It was Meyer's first film to employ a dramatic storyline, the most expensive film he had filmed to date, and the first of two films Meyer filmed with Lorna Maitland. Though the film was prosecuted for obscenity in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Florida, it became a major success at drive-ins, downtown theaters, and even made appearances at art-house cinemas. Author and director William Rotsler said of this film, "with "Lorna" Meyer established the formula that made him rich and famous, the formula of people filmed at top hate, top lust, top heavy." [*cite book|author= McDonough, Jimmy|year=2005|title=Big bosoms and square jaws : the biography of Russ Meyer, king of the sex film|publisher=Jonathan Cape|location=London|id=ISBN 0-224-07250-1, p.138]

Plot

The publicity to "Lorna" exclaimed: "Without artistic surrender, without compromise, without question or apology, an important motion picture was produced: LORNA-- a woman too much for one man."

One of Meyer's early, rural gothic films, the story involves Lorna, an unsatisfied young wife married to Jim, a worker at a salt mine who spends his evenings studying to become a CPA. When Lorna is raped by an escaped convict, her frustrated sexuality is awakened. She begins inviting the stranger to her home while Jim works. After being teased by his co-workers at the salt mine, Jim returns home and discovers Lorna's unfaithfulness.

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References

*cite book|author= Frasier, David K.|year=1998|title=Russ Meyer--the life and films : a biography and a comprehensive, illustrated, and annotated filmography and bibliography|publisher=McFarland & Co|location=Jefferson, N.C.|id=ISBN 0-7864-0472-8
*cite book|author= McDonough, Jimmy|year=2005|title=Big bosoms and square jaws : the biography of Russ Meyer, king of the sex film|publisher=Jonathan Cape|location=London|id=ISBN 0-224-07250-1

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