60¢ worth of unexpurgated lust!

Jan 08, 2008 08:04


D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel was a literary scandal because of the explicit sex descriptions, naughty words, and the taboo relationship between a working class male and an upper-crust woman. My 60¢ Signet copy was the June 1964 printing, the 21st of that edition. The recent French film version Lady Chatterley was one of the better and more moistly arousing movies released here in 2007, but I remember with fondness the 1955 French version Lady Chatterley's Lover with Danielle Darrieux and Erno Crisa. That one was banned and loudly forbidden by the neo-Inquisition under the pain of mortal sin and perhaps excommunication. But I went to see it when it played locally a while later. Oh well, what's a mortal sin more or less?

books, sex, movies

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