Deadly Sanctuary

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<bR> <div> <B>(Sadism/Historical)            6******skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Blood* *Extremely Violent (sexual torture)* *No Strong Language* *Nudity* *Sexual situations* *Not Gory*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1970/Color/93 Min./Monterey Home Video/Towers of London Films/Spanish-Italian/Rate</B><B>d?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............Jess Franco (Ilsa, the Wicked Warden, Jack the Ripper)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Peter Welbeck</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Bruno Nicolai</B></div> <div> <B>Producer..........Harry Alan Towers</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the book "Deadly Sanctuary" by the Marquis de Sade</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Antonin ........Jack Palance (Alone in the Dark, City Slickers)</B></div> <div> <B>Justine.........Romina Power</B></div> <div> <B>Juliette........Maria Rohm (Call of the Wild)</B></div> <div> <B>Madame Dubois...Mercedes McCambridge (The President's Plane is Missing)</B></div> <div> <B>Du Harpin.......Akim Tamiroff (Anastasia, Tortilla Flat, The Trial)</B></div> <div> <B>Marquis de Sade.Klaus Kinski (Circus of Fear, Crawlspace, Venom)</B></div> <div> <B>Claudine........Rosemary Dexter (The Big Rip-off)</B></div> <div> <B>DeBressac.......Horst Frank (The Head)</B></div> <div> <B>Raymond.........Harald Leipnitz (Hell Hounds of Alaska)</B></div> <div> <B>DeRoches........Gustavo Re</B></div> <div> <B>Florette........Rosalba Neri</B></div> <div> <B>Clement.........Howard Vernon (Castle of the CreepingFlesh, Zombies' Lake)</B></div> <div> <B>Prisoner........Serena Vergano</B></div> <div> <B>Victor..........Jose Manuel Martin</B></div> <div> <B>Count...........Gerard Tichy (The Summertime Killer)</B></div> <div> <B>Mad. DeBuissen..Carmen de Lirio</B></div> <div> <B>Jasmin..........Angel Petit</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: DeSade..Banned in The slooow pace and eighteenth century setting will exclude a number of viewers. Like DeSade's book the film, jumps from tortuous vignette to tortuous vignette.  </B></div> <div> <B>The form of the story is a discourse on religion.</B></div> <div> <B>DeSade's musing about the injustice of the world.</B></div> <div> <B>A far cry from Leibnitz' "best of all possible worlds."</B></div> <div> <B>The nuns kicked her out and the priest took her money and the brothers are sadists--not a good tally for the church. </B></div> <div> <B>The equilibrium of nature is served by the committing of crimes. </B></div> <div> <B>Not Palance's greatest performance. The unprepared reward for suffering on earth through joy in heaven is a bit of a letdown. </B></div> <div> <B>The scenes of sexual torture are more suggestive than explicit but still disturbing .</B></div> <div> <B></B></div> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Marquis DeSade is brought into the Bastille and placed in isolation. In his cell, he is haunted by images of manacled, naked females and his disgust of the morally destitute state of the world.   When Justine and Juliette parents die, in her infinite wisdom the Reverend Mother send them out without a thought. Juliette knows to go straight to a brothel, but the virtuous Justine balks and heads out on her own. In the blink of an eye an unscrupulous priest filches her  one hundred crowns. Justine manages to get work as a scullery maid.  While Juliette learns a trade at the brothel. Mr Deaporsche comes to the house where Justine is working and accuses her of stealing a broche. She's framed. The broche turns up supposedly in her room.  Justine is sent to prison. She's thrown in on death row with the Mme DuBois and assorted criminals. Mme DuBois plans her escape and decides to take Justine along. Justine and Mme DuBois successfully escapes.  Justine realizes she is payment to the other briggens who helped them escape and runs off. Justine encounters a gentleman artist, Raymond, who takes her in. Implausibly Justine sleeps for 5 days. She cannot repay him; Raymond suggests that she sit for him as payment. When the soldiers show up at Raymond's, Justine runs off. With his help, Justine escapes however the soldiers pursue. Again she romps through the woods and comes upon to men horsing around. One of the men is Chev. de Breisach.  She is taken as a boy by two homosexuals. She is taken on as lady's maid. Chev. de Breisach plots to murder his wife and insists that if Justine does not cooperate he will accuse her of the plot.  Justine reveals the plot to Lady de Breisach. That night a switch of wine glasses by the Chev and the deed is done. The Chev. punishes Justine by branding her with an "M" for murder. Juliette has learned so much from her prostitute friend Claudine that she murders her for their plunder and heads off with a young man to a life of plenty. Justine blunders into the house of four scholars. They have devoted their life to the study of pleasure--which can be had only through cruelty. It's pins and clamps for Justine for the enjoyment of the brotherhood. (Brother Antonine) Palance notes that the path of righteousness has borne a fruit of suffering. He suggests that the ultimate pleasure for her is to endure. She realizes that she is the sinner and he the man of virtue. The brothers decide that the time has come that Justine endure the ultimate sacrifice in the brother's search for pleasure. In the nick of time, lightning strikes the castle and Justine escapes. Claudette, who has been there a year, can't get herself to escape. Raymond finds Justine in the street and brings her to an Inn. Mm. Dubois shows up to take charge of her--she notes that if evil exists either he wants it or can't stop it--not very impressive. When Raymond shows up, Justine has been whisked away to carnival show where she parades naked with her "M" branded on her chest. Juliette, now consort to the king's minister, comes to save her in the nick of time. Juliette decides she intends to change her ways, but Juliette tells her her prosperity has left her empty.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>