Black Emanuelle en Orient

Original title: Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage

1976
16
1h 32m

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Laura Gemser, Debra Berger, and Ely Galleani in Black Emanuelle en Orient (1976)

On assignment in Bangkok to interview the King of Thailand, photojournalist Emanuelle becomes entangled in political intrigue and sexual encounters with old and new lovers.On assignment in Bangkok to interview the King of Thailand, photojournalist Emanuelle becomes entangled in political intrigue and sexual encounters with old and new lovers.On assignment in Bangkok to interview the King of Thailand, photojournalist Emanuelle becomes entangled in political intrigue and sexual encounters with old and new lovers.

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Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

Joe D'Amato's first stab in the "Black Emanuelle" series with Laura Gemser in her second stint as the character. In this film, Emanuelle travels to Bangkok to get an interview with their King but she spends most of her time screwing any man or woman she can get her hands on. This film doesn't contain the sleaze factor that future D'Amato/Gemser films have but there's still some fairly naughty stuff here including one woman who sticks a golf ball up her vagina and then blows it out. Animal lovers will also want to stay away as there's a disgusting scene with a snake and muskrat fighting it out to the (real) death. As for the rest of the film, it's amazing that D'Amato would make so many softcore and hardcore adult films (this one is soft) and yet never manage to capture anything remotely erotic ala other directors in the field like Franco and Rollin. Gemser is a hot piece of ass but D'Amato does nothing with that beauty and the non-erotic moments is what really kills this thing. The so called story is boring enough and while there's plenty of sex and nudity, this too gets boring after a while. This film was followed by Emanuelle in America, which also features Pedro the horse. Now that film and star get an ultimate yuck.

Trivia
When Black Emanuelle (1975) was a smash hit, Laura Gemser signed a contract with director Joe D'Amato (aka Aristide Massaccesi) for five more Emanuelle films. Gemser said years later that being nude and filming sex scenes for Black Emanuelle were awkward for her because she was very shy, but they got much worse working for D'Amato. He was an infamous director of sleazy exploitation films in 1970s Italy, and churned out hundreds of low budget films that left audiences in awe of how perverse and depraved they were. He ended up having Gemser filming every possible sex (straight and lesbian) and nude scene he could think of and filmed her from every possible angle,

Goofs
In the English print opening credits, Venantino Venantini's surname is misspelled 'Venantim'.

Alternate versions
The version distributed by City Nights Films (which is the version most often shown on US cable television) replaces the title and end credit sequences of Laura Gemser wandering around various locales with a sequence of titles on a black background. The love scenes are also majorly (and quite sloppily) cut, as are some more violent sequences.