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Director:
Ulli Lommel
Writers:
Ulli Lommel (writer)
John P. Marsh (writer)
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Release Date:
March 1983 (USA) more
Tagline:
Her Love Can Kill You
Plot:
An American engineer in London, who is helping to dismantle the London Bridge to be transported to Arizona... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Suzanna Love ... Olivia
Robert Walker Jr. ... Mike (as Robert Walker)
Jeff Winchester ... Richard
Amy Robinson ... 5-year-old Olivia
Bibbe Hansen ... The Mother
Nicholas Love ... The Soldier
Kenneth R. Shippy ... Eric
Michael Evans ... Chairman
Ulli Lommel ... The Detective
Judy Walker ... The Manager
Ron James ... Broker
Raymond H. Shockey ... Man
Jorge Zepeda ... Bartender
Kathy Kartiganer ... Girl
Clement St. George ... Lawyer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Taste of Sin
Beyond the Bridge
Double Jeopardy (UK)
Faces of Fear (USA) (working title)
Olivia - Im Blutrausch des Wahnsinns (West Germany)
Prozzie (UK)
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Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA | West Germany
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Singapore:R21 | Norway:18 (video rating) (1984) | Australia:R | UK:18
Filming Locations:
Arizona, USA more
Company:
Ambassador more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Ulli Lommel and Suzanna Love found London Bridge in Arizona while preparing for Boogeyman II (1983). Lommel started writing a story that would involve London Bridge in London and Arizona's London Bridge. more
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A Touch of Surreality, 10 November 2007
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Author: Thorsten_B (thb8@hotmail.com) from Frankfurt, Germany

Somehow one is reminded of Brian de Palmas film "Obsession" when watching this rarely seen German-American production from the early eighties. Ulli Lommel, once member of Rainer Werner Fassbinders highly intellectual actors group, turned to directing when he still under Fassbinders influence, but after his mentors untimely death he finally turned to more commercial topics. "Olivia" – or "A Taste of Sin", as it is apparently also known – at first sight looks like pure (S)Exploitation, but there's more to it. As Lommel says in the short interview that accompanies the films' German DVD release, the idea of the story came to his mind when he, while on a trip with his then-wife Suzanna Love (playing the main part), found out that the London Bridge was rebuild in Arizona. He used this as the outline for a sort of identity-switch trouble-personality killer-love story – combining two places with two personalities, both of which essentially having been one from the very beginning. True, the way the story unfolds is far from cinematic brilliance, but nonetheless it is quite entertaining; and in no one way is this modern fairytale the brutal splatter film that others would probably want it to be. There are some harsh effects, and a few violent scenes are included in the aforementioned DVD as bonus (yet only the material that was originally cut out is seen, which makes some of this bonus shorter than even a second!). But sex, murder and blood, while still important for the outline, are not the main attractions. Lommel intensely tries to give his film a psychological touch. Because of his limited skills in storytelling, he does not succeed. But still: Olivias rite of passage makes for entertaining viewing, especially is you like that particular touch of weirdness, absurdity and "otherness" that so many great underground pictures from the 70s carry.

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