Lorna

Lorna (1964)

Longing...Love...Lust...Life, Lorna . . . the embodiment of fulfillment and desire.

Lorna and Jim have been married for a year but Lorna remains sexually unsatisfied. While he's at work, she is raped by an escaped convict, then becomes lustfully involved with him.

Date of release
1964-09-11
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (54)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Drama
Director
Russ Meyer

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $37K

Lorna is a 1964 American independent film directed and produced by Russ Meyer and starring Lorna Maitland. It was written by James Griffith and Meyer.

Production

"That was breaking into what I call the quasi-foreign film," said Meyer later. "I wanted to make a Bitter Rice in America. A morality play! Good vs evil! The incredibly stacked Lorna Maitland, the innocent husband, the devil's advocate! She paid for her sins in the end by having an ice tong struck through that heaving chest."

Meyer had originally offered the lead role to Maria Andre, an actress who had been in his earlier Heavenly Bodies! (1963). However Meyer was unhappy with her breast size and continued to look for alternatives. Meyer's wife and business partner, Eve, discovered Barbara Ann Popejoy. She was cast and Meyer paid off Andre.

Meyer renamed Popejoy to "Lorna Maitland". She was pregnant during the shoot.

The film was shot in black and white over 10 days in September 1963, mainly on the small main street that runs through Locke, California.

In 1973 Meyer said at the time he made Lorna, "if I did a rape scene it struck me that it was terribly erotic and exciting. Today it would not strike me the same way. I would probably treat it in a much more ludicrous fashion, more outrageous. But then again, even then I was doing that, because I always had a woman raped in the most difficult circumstances, in a swamp, or in six feet of water, or out in a sand dune.

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