title: Cruel Passion
text: # Cruel Passion
  
  Cruel Passion (also known as Justine) is a 1977 film starring Koo Stark, Martin Potter, Lydia Lisle, and Katherine Kath. It was directed by Chris Boger and based on the 1791 novel Justine by the Marquis de Sade.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Justine is a young virgin thrown out of a French orphanage and into the depraved world of prostitution. She slips into a life of debauchery, torture, whipping, slavery and salaciousness while her brazen, flirtatious and liberated sister Juliette ironically receives nothing but happiness and reward for her wanton behavior.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Koo Stark as Justine Jerome
  * Martin Potter as Lord Carlisle
  * Lydia Lisle as Juliette Jerome
  * Katherine Kath as Madame Laronde
  * Hope Jackman as Mrs Bonny
  * Barry McGinn as George
  * Louis Ife as Pastor John
  * Maggie Petersen as Mother Superior
  * David Masterman as Archer
  * Ian McKay as Brough
  * Ann Michelle as Pauline
  
  ## Release
  
  ### Home media
  
  The DVD is now available uncut in the United Kingdom as "Cruel Passion" and in the United States as "Marquis de Sade's Justine"
  
  