Emanuelle in Bangkok

Name: Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1 h 27 min
Rating: 4.4
Cast: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Ely Galleani

Original title: Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage

1976
R
1h 27m

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4.4/10

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Drama

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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IMDb RATING

4.4/10

1.3K

YOUR RATING

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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.

Connections
Featured in Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater: Episode dated 2 July 1994 (1994)

Soundtracks
Black Emanuelle
Written by Nico Fidenco
Performed by The Bulldogs

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Featured review

2/10

Emanuelle In Bangkok (Joe D' Amato, 1976) *1/2

Notorious film director D' Amato's first entry in the "Black Emanuelle" series is somewhat better than its predecessor but, the version I watched on Italian TV is so sloppily trimmed that several sexy scenes end abruptly, thus making them quite senseless! Here Emanuelle attracts the attentions of a Thai Prince (Ivan Rassimov, of all people), her on-off archaeologist boyfriend (real-life husband Gabriele Tinti), a world-renowned historian and a shy Thai bell-boy, as well as 4(!) females - an Oriental masseuse, a repressed American tourist (played by the lovely Ely Galleani from A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN [1971] and BABA YAGA [1973]), Tinti's "official" schoolmarmy girlfriend and, most intriguingly, an American Consul's (possibly manic-depressive) daughter!

I say intriguingly because Emanuelle is shown really losing her head for the young, inexperienced girl (almost up to the point that she starts considering forsaking her hedonistic lifestyle) but, before you can say, "Copout!", she gets a call from her newspaper sending her off to Paris for another assignment!! By the way, towards the middle of the film, Emanuelle's Bangkok apartment gets broken into and she loses her passport and all her valuable rolls of film (apparently because she was getting too close to Prince Rassimov who has a coup d'etat on his mind) and, for good measure, there's some local color (opium smoking and sensuous dancing) and even animal cruelty (in the form of a bloody mongoose vs. cobra duel). What the f***!