{"id":51229,"date":"2020-09-08T22:50:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T05:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51229"},"modified":"2021-01-22T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T17:07:10","slug":"lorna-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51229","title":{"rendered":"Lorna (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m married, sure &#8212; but we never REALLY married, like now.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Poster-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-51232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Poster-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Poster-180x270.jpg 180w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Poster.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe sexually dissatisfied wife (Lorna Maitland) of a kind salt mine worker (James Rucker) is raped by a violent ex-convict (Mark Bradley), who she then desires as a lover and brings home &#8212; but when Bradley and his two co-workers (Hal Hopper and Doc Scortt) come home early that day after Rucker has fought Bradley on behalf of Maitland&#8217;s honor, they&#8217;re in for an unpleasant surprise.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deep South<\/li>\n<li>Ex-Cons<\/li>\n<li>Infidelity<\/li>\n<li>Russ Meyer Films<\/li>\n<li>Sexuality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;Russ Meyer potboiler&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;his first attempt to make a serious film with a plot and theme&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;recalls those independently made, sleazy, sex-filled fake social dramas of the thirties (i.e., <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=15886\"><em>Child Bride<\/em><\/a>).&#8221; He notes that &#8220;Meyer mixed Erskine Caldwell, John Steinbeck, and [a] phony morality tale to pretty good effect&#8221;, &#8220;impressively creat[ing] the sweaty, puritanical backwoods environment&#8221; and establishing &#8220;how a young woman could go crazy trying to repress her sexual impulses in such a &#8216;hot&#8217; environment&#8221;. He points out that &#8220;Lorna&#8217;s character goes through much of what Hedy Lamarr does in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10418\"><em>Ecstasy<\/em><\/a>; like Lamarr, she must be punished &#8212; according to a male filmmaker &#8212; for fulfilling her fantasies.&#8221; Given that the film opens with a near-rape &#8212; Hopper follows a drunk woman (Althea Currier) home and savagely beats her after she refuses his advances &#8212; then Lorna later &#8220;gets turned on by a rapist&#8221;, this film is clearly made from and for a certain perspective, and is really only must-see for Meyer enthusiasts. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atmospheric b&#038;w cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography.png 466w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography-128x99.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography-350x270.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography2.png 466w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography2-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography2-128x99.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Lorna-Cinematography2-350x270.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though of course Russ Meyer fans will certainly want to check it out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058301\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=4359&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m married, sure &#8212; but we never REALLY married, like now.&#8221; Synopsis: The sexually dissatisfied wife (Lorna Maitland) of a kind salt mine worker (James Rucker) is raped by a violent ex-convict (Mark Bradley), who she then desires as a lover and brings home &#8212; but when Bradley and his two co-workers (Hal Hopper and Doc Scortt) come home early that day after Rucker has fought Bradley on behalf of Maitland&#8217;s honor, they&#8217;re in for an unpleasant surprise. Genres, Themes,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51229\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51229"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65071,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51229\/revisions\/65071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}