Ken Russel- Alice in Wonderland-Video

Ken Russel the famous and controversial English filmmaker known for

his erotic films died on 27th November 2011 aged 89 peacefully in his

sleep of natural causes after a lifetime of fighting the British Board

of Film Censorship BBFC (later changed to an Orwellian euphemism to

the British Board of Film & Video Classification) who cut his films to

ribbons excising the most erotic and violent scenes.

His scripts were often about famous composers or other works of art

and his masterpieces include the Oscar winning Women in Love 1969

based the D.H. Lawrence classic featuring Glenda Jackson (, Tommy

featuring the famous British rock band the Who in 1975, The Devils

1971, Altered States,1980.

Biopics of famous composers featured Elgar, Delius, Liszt, Mahler and

Tchaikovsky.

Just before he died Russel was working on a remake of 1970s cult film

Alice in Wonderland (written by Osco.) adaption of Lewis Carroll’s

classic that he planned to direct next year.

Bill Osco's Alice remains today one of the most successful, risqué

musical comedies in motion picture history.

The cast included porn stars Bree Anthony, Nancy Dare, Juliet Graham,

Terri Hall and Tony Richards.

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