Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
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Directed by | Joe D'Amato[1] |
Screenplay by |
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Story by | Joe D'Amato[1] |
Produced by | Gianfranco Couyoumdjian[1] |
Starring | Laura Gemser |
Cinematography | Joe D'Amato[1] |
Music by | Nico Fidenco[1] |
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Release date | 28 April 1978 (Italy) |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade (Italian: La via della prostituzione, lit. 'The path of prostitution') is an Italian sexploitation film from 1978 directed by Joe D'Amato as his last Black Emanuelle film.[2] It was also known as Emanuelle and the Girls of Madame Claude.[3]
Plot[]
Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) is in Kenya to arrange an interview with the Italian American gangster George Lagnetti ("Giorgio Rivetti" in the English dub) (Venantino Venantini). She succeeds in meeting him with help from her friend Susan Towers (Ely Galleani) and Prince Aurozanni (Pierre Marfurt) but is intrigued by other events, leading her to meet the white slave trader Francis Harley (Gabriele Tinti), and setting her up for a dangerous undercover operation at the San Diego mansion of Madame Claude (Gota Gobert), which functions as a brothel for top-level dignitaries and civil servants.
Cast[]
- Laura Gemser as Emanuelle
- Ely Galleani as Susan Towers
- Gabriele Tinti as Francis Harley
- Venantino Venantini as Giorgio Rivetti
- Pierre Marfurt as Prince Arausani
- Gota Gobert as Madame Claude
- Nicola D'Eramo as Stefan
- Bryan Rostron as Jim Barnes
Background[]
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade features the investigative journalist character known to her readers as 'Emanuelle' (Laura Gemser). Like most films directed or produced by Joe D'Amato, it is an attempt to capitalise on the commercial success of another film - in this case the 1977 film The French Woman (French: Madame Claude). The film is one of the Black Emanuelle films with the heaviest censorship, eight minutes cut in a theatrical release.[4]
Release[]
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade was released in Italy on April 20, 1978.[5]
Reception[]
In a contemporary review, John Pym (Monthly Film Bulletin) "a flimsy, though surprisingly unsensational, yarn supposedly concerned with the horrors of 'white slavery'. The dismal artifice of the whole severely tests the viewer's patience."[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g Pym, John (1979). "Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 46, no. 540. British Film Institute. p. 130.
- ^ "Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20.
- ^ Amador, María Luisa; Blanco, Jorge Ayala (2006). Cartelera cinematográfica, 1980-1989 (in Spanish). UNAM. p. 137. ISBN 9789703236053. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ^ Stracult: Dizionario dei film italiani (2004), Marco Giusti, Frassinelli, Roma, ISBN 8876848134
- ^ Buchanan, Jason. "Via Della Prostituzione". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
External links[]
- 1978 films
- Films directed by Joe D'Amato
- Sexploitation films
- Italian-language films
- Italian crime films
- Italian films
- Films set in Kenya
- Films set in New York City
- Films set in San Diego
- Emanuelle
- Italian LGBT-related films
- Films scored by Nico Fidenco
- Exploitation film stubs