Russ Meyer, who directed this and co-wrote it with James Griffith, who also plays the Man of God who speaks at the open and close of this, said that Lorna is "a brutal examination of the important realities of power, prophecy, freedom and justice in our society against a background of violence and lust, where simplicity is only a facade." It's also the first serious movie he'd make after filming war footage - some claims the sight of the flag being raised on Iwo Jima was shot by Meyer - and nudie cuties like The Immoral Mr. Teas and Wild Gals of the Naked West. Not that this movie is any less sexual, as it was charged with obscenity in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Florida.
"Without artistic surrender, without compromise, without question or apology, an important motion picture was produced: LORNA-a woman too much for one man."
That's right. Lorna (Lorna Maitland) is unsatisfied with her husband Jim (James Rucker), no matter how hard he works at the salt mine and slaves over the books at night to become an accountant. He's boring, after all. And when she's assaulted by a convict (Mark Bradley) - while she swims nude in a river - she discovers her lust is still intact, despite her marriage. She invites him back to her place and tragedy mars the ending so much that we see the form of the Grim Reaper staring down on the final moments of this film.
Maria Andre was about to play Lorna but something was wrong. Meyer figured it out. Her breasts were too small for him. He paid her anyways - she was already in his movie Heavenly Bodies! - and found the 42D-22-36 Barbara Ann Popejoy thanks to his wife Eve. He changed her name to Lorna Maitland and she'd be in his next two films after this, Mondo Topless (actually, he used some of her audition for this and it wasn't new footage) and Mudhoney. She was pregnant during the filming and gave her child up for adoption afterward. Her life after being in movies wasn't all that happy, as related by The Rialto Report.
Written in four days and shot in ten, Lorna is short and to the point. It's also pretty great. Unfortunately, other than Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! And Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, so many of Meyer's movies are going unremembered and unseen by younger viewers, as the DVDs are so high in price and there aren't blu rays or ways to see them streaming. I'd love if this changed. His work demands to be examined.
"Without artistic surrender, without compromise, without question or apology, an important motion picture was produced: LORNA-a woman too much for one man."
That's right. Lorna (Lorna Maitland) is unsatisfied with her husband Jim (James Rucker), no matter how hard he works at the salt mine and slaves over the books at night to become an accountant. He's boring, after all. And when she's assaulted by a convict (Mark Bradley) - while she swims nude in a river - she discovers her lust is still intact, despite her marriage. She invites him back to her place and tragedy mars the ending so much that we see the form of the Grim Reaper staring down on the final moments of this film.
Maria Andre was about to play Lorna but something was wrong. Meyer figured it out. Her breasts were too small for him. He paid her anyways - she was already in his movie Heavenly Bodies! - and found the 42D-22-36 Barbara Ann Popejoy thanks to his wife Eve. He changed her name to Lorna Maitland and she'd be in his next two films after this, Mondo Topless (actually, he used some of her audition for this and it wasn't new footage) and Mudhoney. She was pregnant during the filming and gave her child up for adoption afterward. Her life after being in movies wasn't all that happy, as related by The Rialto Report.
Written in four days and shot in ten, Lorna is short and to the point. It's also pretty great. Unfortunately, other than Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! And Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, so many of Meyer's movies are going unremembered and unseen by younger viewers, as the DVDs are so high in price and there aren't blu rays or ways to see them streaming. I'd love if this changed. His work demands to be examined.