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From exclusive interviews with director Ken Russell and new interviews with ensemble, crew, and historians, comes this study of the beautifully blasphemous film The Devils. Based on historical reality, this questionable 1971 film is about an oversexed priest and several sexually repressed nuns in 17th-century France and the ensuing trials and exorcisms that implemented. Detailing the production and the personalities of two of cinema's great eccentrics, director Ken Russell and celebrity Oliver Reed, Crouse delves deeper to explore the aftermath of the film. Chiefly, the question asked is: How can a movie by one of the very most famous filmmakers on earth end up prohibited, edited, and overlooked by the company that is the owner of it?
