Friday, 9 October 2020

The Devil in Miss Jonas (4 Stars)


This Swiss film, made my Erwin C. Dietrich in 1974, has absolutely nothing to do with the American film "The Devil in Miss Jones" a year earlier. It's an example of the common practise of plagiarising film titles to trick people into buying the wrong film. I didn't make a mistake. This is the film I wanted, because I'm an Erwin C. Dietrich fan.

Marilyn Jonas is a rich young woman who is, by her own admission, a nymphomaniac. She has three lovers, but they're still not enough for her, so she has to seek pleasure elsewhere. The film begins with Marilyn being whipped and tortured by a Satanic cult. She's not a Satanist; she only visited them because she's sexually excited by being tortured. The Satanists hurt her more and more, but she's still aroused and begs for more. Their intention is to make her suffer, not give her pleasure, so they have only one possibility left: they put her in a guillotine and cut off her head.

Later in the evening Marilyn is brought before the Devil in Hell. He's happy to see her in Hell, because he's been watching her for years. Nobody else sins as much as her. However, he reads his schedule and finds that she's arrived in Hell a day too early. He sends her back to live on Earth for another 24 hours, as long as she promises not to do anything silly like repenting and becoming a Christian.

The Devil needn't have worried. All Marilyn wants to do is have sex with her three lovers before she returns to Hell. There's just one problem. In the four hours while Marilyn was dead, her maid Dorthe seduced all three of Marilyn's lovers. She even killed one of them during sex, by bouncing up and down on him until he had a heart attack. I'm jealous. Marilyn wants revenge, but it's not so easy. The Devil has placed demons in the woods around her house.


This is a difficult film to rate. Is it a good film or a bad film? That depends what you want from it. If you're looking for a good plot which makes sense, you'll be disappointed. If you're looking for a film with a message to make you think, you'll also be disappointed. But if you want to sit and watch a beautiful naked women for 75 minutes, this is the film for you. Marilyn Jonas is completely naked for the first 60 minutes of the film. I was disappointed when she finally put on a dress, but she took it off again after two minutes and remained naked for the rest of the film.

This is a softcore film, unlike "The Devil in Miss Jones". There's nudity throughout the film, but no explicit sex.


I've tried in vain to find out more about Christa Free, who plays the title role. She's a complete mystery. All I know about her is that she appeared in 10 films from 1972 to 1975, and they were all directed by Erwin C. Dietrich. ECD had a group of actors that he used repeatedly in his films, but they usually appeared elsewhere. For instance, Dorthe is played by Marianne Dupont, who appears in four of ECD's films, but she also appeared in several of the German Schoolgirl Report films. I'd love to know where Christa Free is today.

There's a sequel to this film, which I'll probably watch soon.

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