The Seven Minutes (film)

The Seven Minutes is a 1971 American drama film directed and produced by Russ Meyer. The film was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irving Wallace.

In examining the history of the book, the defense attorney discovered it was written by J.J. Jadway, an American expatriate living in Europe, originally published in English by a publisher in France, and eventually picked up by various tawdry publishing companies in the United States, most of whom tried to emphasize the more lurid and salacious aspects of the book. The books content is considered so sexually explicit that it was banned as obscene in overcountries. Apparently. J.J. Jadway was so despondent over the treatment of his book that he committed suicide one of his friends found him and reported it.As the trial takes place, the prosecutor finds ordinary members of the public who find the book grossly offensive one of whom admits on crossexamination by the defense that she cannot even repeat out loud one of the words used in the book to describe what the female protagonist was doing in bed with her lover, while the defense finds professionals in academia and the media who attest to the books value as literature. The prosecution then puts the young man who committed the rape on the stand to say the book drove him to it. ........

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