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Train journeys. Boring, eh? Imogene (Heather Deeley) thinks so. She's handcuffed to another woman: prisoner and escort en route to jail. Imogene's fellow passengers are a young man proffering an apple and an older man absorbed in
Vampirella magazine. There's only one thing to do to while away the hours: fantasize! All aboard the Sex Express!
Now, I know what you're thinking, but I can tell you that no sex takes place on the train. This, after all, is British Rail in the 1970s. There's plenty going on inside Imogene's head, though; and some of it is pretty eye watering.
Diversions is the hardcore version of British filmmaker Derek Ford's Sex Express under which title it was released in the U.K. to little acclaim. However, the hardcore sequences added for the overseas markets take the film up a level. It was not unusual for British sex films of this era to have spicier content added to them for foreign consumption, but these would often be outsourced. Derek Ford was rare in that he directed the whole shebang.
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Alpha Blue's DVD release features a heavily scarred print full of pock marks and green lines along with some heavily distorted sound in places. The film itself still packs a punch with some of its controversial content.
Lead actress Heather Deeley seems to be something of an elusive lady these days with reports of a descent into drug use widely reported but beyond that, little is known. Her performance in Diversions is remarkable and hints at what might have been.
See Gav Crimson's blog for more on Diversions and Heather Deeley.
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