Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne? (1977)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Joe D'Amato

Writers:

Gianfranco Clerici (writer)
Joe D'Amato (writer)

Release Date:

October 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Emanuelle's back to take you places you've never been before!

Plot:

Famous undercover journalist Emanuelle teams with her friend Cora Norman to uncover a white slave ring...

Plot Keywords:

Investigation | Pubic Hair | Female Frontal Nudity | Male Nudity | Snake

Cast

Laura Gemser	...	Emanuelle
Ivan Rassimov	...	Dr. Malcolm Robertson
Karin Schubert	...	Cora Norman
Don Powell	...	Jeff Davis
George Eastman	...	Guru Shanti
Brigitte Petronio	...	Mary
Maria Luigia Stefania Pecce
Marino Masé	...	Cassei
Gianni Macchia	...	Emir
Paola Maiolini
Claudio Aliotti
Eduardo Puoti
Lanfranco Spinola
Antonio Gismondo
Rino Guarrera

Also Known As:

Confessions of Emanuelle (UK)
Emanuelle Around the World (International: English title)
Emanuelle Versus Violence to Women
The Degradation of Emanuelle (video title)

Runtime:

97 min | UK:80 min (heavily cut) | 102 min (hardcore version)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

France:-16 | UK:18 (re-rating: 1987) (heavily cut) | UK:X (original rating: 1978) (heavily cut) | Australia:R (2008) | Finland:K-18 | USA:X (self applied)

Filming Locations:

Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Embassy Productions S.p.A.

Trivia:

When this film was originally submitted to the BBFC in the UK in 1978, it was a film version that was cut to run at 87 minutes. When re-submitted for video in 1987, however, the uncut soft-core version was submitted with a PAL running time of 94 minutes (which is 97 minutes for film and NTSC running times) and was cut by 15 minutes, 45 seconds PAL running time (16 minutes, 24 seconds film/NTSC running time), bringing the final running time to 77 minutes, 27 seconds PAL (80 minutes, 41 seconds film/NTSC). It has yet to be re-released on DVD in the UK.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Obvious body double for the hardcore scene featuring Emanuelle at the Guru's orgy.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Nightstalker (2009) (V)

Soundtrack:

A Picture of Love Intro

Emanuelle Vs. Violence To Women (Joe D' Amato, 1977) **

The fifth "Black Emanuelle" I've watched has, potentially, the most intriguing plot line dealing as it does with the intrepid female reporter investigating the white slavery/prostitution racket which takes her from San Francisco to Rome to Macao and back to her own hometown, New York! The film is peopled with past veterans of the series which, inexplicably, play completely different roles, namely Ivan Rassimov (appearing here as a head of a United Nations committee for Third World countries!), Karin Shubert (as a feminist rival reporter) and Don Powell (as Rassimov's chauffeur).

Unfortunately, as usual with this type of film (despite their being shown in the dead of night), it is heavily edited and a particularly graphic scene (described in "Stracultr) in which an Asian slave trader gets his comeuppance by being sodomized by a dog is nowhere to be seen here!! Still, a harrowing sequence late in the film when a sleazy politician tricks a couple of girls (including, naturally, Gemser and Shubert) into a midnight rendezvous under a New York bridge with a group of bums (this is the way he gets their votes, get it!) - with his high society pals giddily looking on - seems pretty much intact.

The most ridiculous element of this entry - apart from Gemser's penchant to disrobe completely every time she enters a house (even in front of perfect strangers) - is her excursion to India to interview a charlatan/Guru (George Eastman made up to look considerably Christ-like!) who has found a way to prolong coitus indefinitely; of course, when Emanuelle calls him up on it, he ends up having premature ejaculation...!!