Lipstick (film)
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Lipstick is a 1976 drama film in the sub-genre rape and revenge films directed by Lamont Johnson. Starring Margaux and Mariel Hemingway, it contains one of the most infamous scenes in motion picture history, showing an extremely brutal and distressing rape scene. The character played by Margaux Hemingway gets beaten, tied up, and then sodomized by her sister's music teacher (Chris Sarandon) until she passes out. After he is acquitted of the crime, he sexually assaults her younger sister. Margaux's character kills him with a Remington Model 760 rifle, (1970s ancestor of the Model 7600) with her crime eventually found to be justifiable homicide. Although this movie was supposed to catapult Margaux to fame, it was her younger sister Mariel whose impressive work got the rave reviews and led to the promising film career Margaux is said to have envied. While still remaining a cult classic, many feel that instead of condemning the brutality of rape, Lipstick seems rather to sensationalize it.
Remakes
The film was remade in India twice. The first remake is the Hindi film Insaaf Ka Tarazu (1980), which became a big hit. The second remake is in Telugu and it is titled Edi Nyayam Edi Dharmam (1982)
