China Blue day and night

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Movie
German title China Blue day and night
Original title Crimes of Passion
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length about 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Ken Russell
script Barry Sandler
production Barry Sandler
music Rick Wakeman
camera Dick Bush
cut Brian Tagg
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China Blue day and night one's erotic thriller from 1984. It was directed by Ken Russell .

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The attractive Joanna Crane works as a successful fashion designer during the day, she seems aloof and cold. But at night she is the prostitute China Blue, who fulfills her suitors' erotic fantasies. When she first appears, she can be seen serving her customers disguised as "Miss Liberty"; she has a wardrobe full of costumes to give everyone what they want. She plays the raped woman with another suitor . When asked who she is, she replies: "I am Cinderella , Cleopatra , Goldie Hawn , Eva Braun , [...] Miss Piggy and [..] Snow White , I am what you want".

Soon her employer, Joanna, suspects she is selling valuable samples to competitors. He hires the private investigator Bobby Grady to shadow Joanna. In doing so, he uncovered her secret. Grady, who is having trouble with his wife Amy, falls in love with Joanna and spends the night with her. China Blue doesn't want to know anything about love at first.

But the psychopathic Reverend Shayne also persecutes China Blue and wants to save her soul; he has many instruments of murder such as B. sharp-edged vibrators in his pocket. After murdering a woman in a tension booth, he shows up at China Blue's house and tries to kill her. Bobby Grady looks for her in her house and hears Joanna's screams. He gains entry to the apartment and discovers the supposed China Blue. In the end, however, she turns out to be Reverend Shayne in disguise; the real China Blue, locked in the closet, managed to break out of it and kill Shayne with one of his own murderous tools.

At the end of the film, as at the beginning, Bobby speaks to a support group for relationship problems. He and Amy have now finally separated, he is now with Joanna. He is “not sure it will work, [they] don't have too much in common other than that [they] both need help. [They] need [each other] ". The film ends with Grady's words: "And then we shagged until we passed out".

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Reviews

  • “A bloody film that tells of dirty sex, of perversions and the mendacity of the supposedly decent. Anthony Perkins portrays his role as a mentally lost man with frightening urgency. "(Dirk Jasper Filmlexikon)
  • "An orgy in intoxicating colors" (Cinema)
  • "Eccentric, intense, vulgar and exciting" (TV movie)
  • "A malicious satirical crime film" (Kölner Stadtanzeiger)
  • "A series of superficially speculative, sometimes involuntarily comical scenes, adorned with arts and crafts, which does not deal with the characters of the story." ( Lexicon of the international film )

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