Your Honour, I Object!

How it feels

This is a British documentary from 1987 about a legal dispute between filmmaker Ken Russell and publisher Bob Guccione. The fight started when their attempt to make a film adaptation of Moll Flanders broke down. The documentary covers the lawsuit and how Russell used a music video as payment to his lawyer.

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What happens

Your Honour, I Object! is a 1987 British documentary about the legal dispute between Ken Russell and Bob Guccione over an aborted attempt to film Moll Flanders. Russell wanted to make a version of Flanders with an unknown, Janice Flanders, in the lead. The film was to be financed by Bob Guccione. Russell wrote a script but Guccione rewrote it and Russell pulled out of the project. Guccione sued Russell for a million dollars, and the director hired lawyer Richard Golub to defend him in exchange for Russell directing a video clip starring Golub. Russell won and kept his fee of $125,000. The incident was turned into a documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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