Felicity (film)

Felicity
Directed by	John D. Lamond
Produced by	John D. Lamond Russell Hurley William T. Marshall (executive producer)
Written by	John D. Lamond
Starring	Glory Annen Marilyn Rodgers Joni Flynn Christopher Milne Jody Hanson
Music by	Brian Potter
Cinematography	Gary Wapscott
Edited by	Russell Hurley
Production company	Krystal Motion Picture Productions
Distributed by	Roadshow
Release date	5 July 1979
Running time	90-94 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	AU$170,000
Box office	AU$532,000 (Australia)

Felicity is a 1978 Australian romantic drama and sexploitation or Ozploitation film starring Canadian actress Glory Annen and written and directed by John D. Lamond.

Felicity Robinson (Glory Annen) is a teen who studies at a remote Roman Catholic Church boarding school and who seeks indulgence in popular erotic novels Story of O, Emmanuelle and in a lesbian love affair with her friend Jenny (Jody Hanson). Her father arranges her holiday trip to Hong Kong where she will stay with a wealthy couple, Christine (Marilyn Rodgers) and Stephen (Gordon Charles). After a party at the couple's mansion, she is deflowered by a guest, Andrew (David Bradshaw) and Christine introduces her to libertine Me Ling (Joni Flynn). Me Ling initiates Felicity to new pleasures. However, Felicity eventually falls in love with Miles (Chris Milne) who saves her from a bunch of Chinese thugs.

Lamond wanted to make a film in the vein of those directed by Just Jaeckin such as Emmanuelle:

The French have always been able to make their films NOT be pornographic, they’d be erotic. They were classy – the most they could ever say was ‘softcore’. And the way they did it, they made pretty images that looked like a Singapore Airlines TV commercial, they had nice fashion, good photography and nice music. And that way it dresses it up and makes it all chocolate boxy... I thought okay, the way to do that on a film budget is to go somewhere exotic. Make sure the people are pretty and they don’t have pimples. Don’t be sordid in any way, have pretty music and exotic locations, nice lighting and nice fashion. So even though it was a tiny film, we came up to Hong Kong and we got all the clothes tailor made for them, so that they fitted properly.