Devil In Miss Jones

Description

There was a time, in the 1970s, before it became the ubiquitous and mass-produced product it is today, when pornography attempted to be taken seriously as an art form. And it was this film, The Devil in Miss Jones, that made the greatest leap forward both commercially and artistically. Directed by Gérard Damiano after his success with Deep Throat, and based on Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit, the film tells the story of a lonely spinster who, after committing suicide, is denied entry to heaven and condemned to a limbo state. She then decides that she would rather return to earth and "earn" her place in hell by committing the deadly sin of lust. The Devil in Miss Jones turned out to be the seventh highest-grossing film of 1973 and set new standards for production value and, yes, musical score. Alden Shuman's soundtrack was not the usual monotone wah-wah of the time, but a broad, panoramic, and plaintive score played by a piano and a full orchestra.