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Crimes of Passion (1984)



Crimes of Passion is a 1984 film directed by Ken Russell starring Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin and
Annie Potts. The film explores themes of sexuality, failed relationships, and mental illness.



The film has a loud and synthesizer-heavy score by rock musician Rick Wakeman, the majority of which is made up of
melodies directly lifted from Czech composer Antonin Dvorák's "New World Symphony". Dvorák's
1893 symphony, a salute to the young United States Of America, has no apparent thematic connection to the content of the
movie; the use of this symphony may simply be a pun on the name of the company that made it, New World Pictures.



Wakeman has an uncredited role in the film as a wedding photographer.





 Kathleen Turner ...  Joanna Crane / China Blue 

 Bruce Davison ...  Donny Hopper 

 Gordon Hunt ...  Group Leader 

 Dan Gerrity ...  Group Member #1 

 Anthony Perkins ...  Rev. Peter Shayne 

 Terry Hoyos ...  Group Member #2 

 Annie Potts ...  Amy Grady 

 Vince McKewin ...  Group Member #3 

 Deanna Oliver ...  Group Member #4 

 Patricia Stevens ...  Group Member $5 

 John Laughlin ...  Bobby Grady 

 John G. Scanlon ...  Carl 

 Janice Renney ...  Stripper 

 Stephen Lee ...  Jerry 

 Pat McNamara ...  Frank 



In a sense, the characters in the 1984 film Crimes of Passion are painted with broad strokes: the hooker with the heart
of gold; the repressed suburban family man slaving away in a loveless marriage; the psychopathic, amyl
nitrate–sniffing evangelist with a satchel full of sex toys. You know, familiar archetypes like that.



There’s nothing common, however, about Crimes of Passion, which will be screened 9 p.m. Saturday to commemorate
the 25th anniversary of its release. It’s a sick, demented, witty, ostentatious, poignant and above all unique
study of psychosexual mores. It was completely of its time, while simultaneously transcending it. 



Because who would insert the line “I never forget a face … especially when I’ve sat on it” in a
mainstream movie? The answer is screenwriter and University of Central Florida film professor Barry Sandler, and Crimes
is his most memorable picture. He’ll join director Ken Russell, who’s being flown in from London, for a
Q&A after Saturday’s screening.



“Especially today, filmmakers and audiences are very reluctant and shy about sexuality on screen,” says
Sandler. “But [Crimes] has developed a cult following because of the fact that it does break rules and cross
boundaries and hit nerves that are very discomforting to people. It stretches the boundaries about how far filmmaking
can go.”



The film, about the relationship between a double-life-leading hooker (Kathleen Turner), an emasculated married man
(John Laughlin) and a villainous faux clergyman (Anthony Perkins), has always been shadowed by controversy. Director
Russell, known for his stylized, Caligulan decadence, had already received an X rating for his 1971 horror film The
Devils. Crimes of Passion would be submitted to the ratings board seven times to avoid an X, with the filmmakers
eventually acquiescing to a neutered R-rated cut that could never live up to the anticipation the controversy
generated.



There was a time when the X rating didn’t spell box-office anathema. Midnight Cowboy and A Clockwork Orange were
rated X, and no one would dismiss their importance. But when X became the domain of porn, it was no longer viable for
mainstream movies. Sandler and then-MPAA ratings board chairman Richard Heffner wanted to change that, using Crimes of
Passion as X’s way back.



“Heffner tried to get me to re-legitimize the X rating,” remembers Sandler. “I thought that was a very
valid argument. He said, ‘You can keep cutting, but it’s not a matter of a word or a scene. It’s the
whole theme of the movie. The psychology of sexuality is a very mature theme, and it’s not for anyone under the
age of 18. You should release [Russell’s] original intention.’ But I couldn’t sell the studio on
it.”



Even Kathleen Turner was willing to waive the clause in her contract that prohibited her from acting in X-rated films.
The final decision ultimately came down to (what else?) money. According to Sandler, New World Pictures, which handled
domestic distribution, received a large chunk of funds from American Express, which wouldn’t allow its corporate
brand to be soured by X-rated debauchery.



Crimes of Passion is not short on serious themes. Like much of Sandler’s previous work, including The Duchess and
the Dirtwater Fox and Making Love, it addresses the facades we wear instead of confronting difficult truths about
ourselves. It’s something Bobby Grady (Laughlin) is as guilty of in his sexless, stifling marriage to Amy (Annie
Potts) as China Blue is when she literally dons masks to satisfy the fantasies of her tricks.



But the cult status Crimes has gained over the years has less to do with Sandler’s cerebral plotting than with
Russell’s sleazily filigreed visual palette. In his evocation of seediness, from peepshows full of sweaty men and
soggy tissues to the astonishing array of sex toys spewing from Perkins’ doctor’s bag (a sharpened metal
vibrator, an S&M whip made of red licorice), Russell sees the top and shoots his cinematographic wad way over.
Furthermore, the scenes between China Blue and her johns are filmed in throbbing, lurid red-and-blue neon that
underscores the sin.



“I envisioned it as more of a gritty, almost black-and-white movie,” says Sandler. “But when I was in
UCLA at film school, at the top of my list was the idea of Ken Russell directing a movie of mine. When he came aboard,
at a certain point I deferred to his vision of the movie. And I love that style of filmmaking, the subtle naturalism
mixed with the in-your-face, outrageous hyperbolic filmmaking. I knew with Russell it would be through his eyes. But at
the same time, I’ve never worked with a director who was so respectful to the text of the script. He
wouldn’t change a word.”





USA:112 min (director's cut) 

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