The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 105

6 Part VIFriday, October 19, 1984 Cos Angeles States MOVIE REVIEW A TALE OF SEX, SQUALOR IN 'CRIMES OF PASSION' NOW SHOWING dialogue, Turner acts if she's auditioning for some loopy Mae West impersonation contest. Eyes wide and nostrils flaring, she looks like a doe caught in the glare of a hunter's headlights. Perkins is her perfect body double. Sweating profusely, all atwitter with erotic fantasies of revenge and guilt, he appears so completely unhinged that you could swear Russell hotwired him to a '57 Chevy before each take. As far back as "The Devils" and "Dance of the Seven Veils," Russell has given his every assignment the Grand Guignol treatment, using his swollen imagination to create a gaudy landscape full of vulgar, self-loathing characters and images of decay and corruption.

But here he's transformed what could have been a daring study of sexual politics into a squalid, irredeemable disaster. CRIMES OF PASSION' A New World Pictures release. Producer Barry Sandler. Co-producer Donald P. Borchers.

Director Ken Russell. Writer Barry Sandler. Camera Dick Bush. Editor Brian Tagg. Music Rick Wakeman.

Art director Steve Marsh. With Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison. Running Time: 1 hour and 41 minutes. MPAA rated: (for considerable nudity, sex, violence and profanity). BAKERSFIELD AMC Stockdale 805324-6778 BUENA PARK UA 8 Movies 714952-4992 CITY Of COMMERCE Pacific's Commerce 726-8022 EAGLE ROCK PLAZA Pacific's Eagle Rock 254-9101 EltORO Edwards Saddleback 714581-5880 GARDEN GROVE Edwards Westbrook 714530-4401 HAWTHORNE AMC Hawthorne 644-9761 LAKEWOOD Pocific's Lakewood Center 531-9580 NORTH HOLLYWOOD UA Movies 818766-4317 PANORAMA CITY Pacific's Americana 818893-6441 SANTA FE SPRINGS Pacific's Santa Fe Springs 946-6840 TORRANCE UA Del Amo 542-7383 HCUYWOOO Hollywood Pacific 464-41 1 1 Doity 12 45 4 45 6 45 HI Convenient ttwotte poking at nor ol nwarre S2 00 01 all nmet Dnect passageway 10 WfSTWOOD Monn Westwood 208-7664 Doe 12 00 4 20 ft 6 30 By PATRICK GOLDSTEIN Ken Russell is the sort of film maker who could turn a home movie abouta tow-headed cherub's fifth birthday party into a romp through Sodom and Gomorrah.

His latest effort, "Crimes of Passion" (city wide), is deliriously bad, directed by Russell as if someone had slipped something into his morning coffee. The film focuses on Bobby Grady (John Laughlin), a boyish electronics wiz who's trapped in a stale marriage to a shrewish wife. When it becomes apparent that his grumpy spouse would rather watch cable TV than snuggle under the covers, Grady takes a surveillance job tailing Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner), a schizzy fashion designer who spends her nights disguised as a kinky hooker named China Blue. There's another lonely guy stalking this edgy, enigmatic streetwalker the Rev. Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins), a sin ister, sexually obsessed street-corner preacher.

The rest of the plot defies description, especially in a family newspaper. Under Russell's hilariously overwrought direction, the film's voyeuristic story line is full of so many gaping holes that you can only assume that either the projectionist skipped a reel or that Russell just decided to throw the script in the air and shoot the pages he caught on their way down. One of the biggest mysteries (along with plot details) is how Russell, who reportedly trimmed the most explicit sex scenes, managed to escape with a rating at all. Just watching the Reverend digging out samples from his bag of exotic sexual tricks would be enough to send Masters Johnson running for cover. This is an movie, all right as in "Are you kidding?" Whenever we look up, Miss Blue dolled up in a blond pageboy wig and an ensemble of trashy WESTMINSTER Pocific's Hi-Way 39 Drive-In 714891-3693 AND AT THESE DRIVE-INS OXKARD CITY Of INDUSTRY INGUWOOD LOMA LINDA Pacific's vineland ANAHEIM Pacific's Anaheim Drive-In 714879-9850 Pocific's Tri-Cily Drive-ln Pocific's Sky View 714889-2025 Drive-ln Pocific's Century Drive-ln 673-1824 Drive-In 818961-9262 805486-1212 PICO RIVERA Pacific's Fiesto Drive-ln 692-7581 Anthony Perkins and Kathleen Turner in RusseWs "Crimes." lingerie only a Prince fan could love is concluding another session in her busy social calendar.

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