Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976) Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage (original title)

Director:

Joe D'Amato

Writers:

Ottavio Alessi (story)
Maria Pia Fusco (screenplay)
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Release Date:

November 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

X Has Never Been Hotter!

Plot:

Emmanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.

Plot Keywords:

Interview | Journalist | Two Women In A Bath Tub | Pubic Hair | Ping Pong Ball

Cast

Laura Gemser	...	Emanuelle
Gabriele Tinti	...	Roberto
Ely Galleani	...	Frances
Ivan Rassimov	...	Prince Sanit
Venantino Venantini	...	David
Giacomo Rossi-Stuart	...	Jimmy
Koike Mahoco	...	Gee
Fausto Di Bella
Gaby Bourgois
Chris Avram	...	Thomas Quizet
Attilio Duse
Debra Berger	...	Debra
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Giuseppe Marrocco	...	Uomo al ristorante (uncredited)

Directed by
Joe D'Amato

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ottavio Alessi		story
Maria Pia Fusco		screenplay
Maria Pia Fusco		story
Piero Vivarelli		story

Original Music by
Nico Fidenco

Cinematography by
Joe D'Amato		(as Aristide Massaccesi)

Film Editing by
Vincenzo Tomassi

Art Direction by
Franco Gaudenzi

Set Decoration by
Mario Paladini

Costume Design by
Bruna Laurini

Makeup Department
Maria Grazia Nardi	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Giuseppe Auriemma	....	unit manager
Silvio Colecchia	....	unit manager
Oscar Santaniello	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Donatella Donati	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Nick Alexander	....	dubbing supervisor
Massimo Loffredi	....	sound recordist
Tullio Petricca	....	boom operator
Roberto Petrozzi	....	sound recordist
Guglielmo Smeraldi	....	boom operator

Camera and Electrical Department
Vittorio Biffani	....	still photographer
Luigi Conversi	....	camera operator
Luciano Dionisi	....	assistant camera

Editorial Department
Sergio Altigieri	....	second assistant editor
Carlo Della Corte	....	third assistant editor
Bruno Micheli	....	first assistant editor

Music Department
Giacomo Dell'Orso	....	conductor (as G. Dell'Orso)

Other crew
Ulderico Arditi	....	production coordinator
Gioia Donati	....	script supervisor (as Gioia Maria Donati)

Production Companies

• Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche (licensor)
• Kristal Film
• San Nicola Produzione Cinematografica (licensor)

Distributors

• Fida Cinematografica (1976) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Monarch Releasing Corporation (1977) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Danton Films (1977) (Canada) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Lumière Pictures (????) (UK) (VHS)
• Master Video Productions (MVP) (Canada) (video) (Italian) (no subtitles)
• Mitel Video (Italy) (VHS)
• Obshchestvennoye Rossijskoye Televideniye (ORT) Video (Russia) (VHS)
• Severin Films (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Umbrella Entertainment (2008) (Australia) (DVD)
• Umbrella Entertainment (2008) (Australia) (video) (VOD)
• VidAmerica (198?) (USA) (VHS)
• Video Programme Distributors (VPD) (????) (UK) (VHS)
• Video for Pleasure (VFP) (????) (Netherlands) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Fono Roma  dubbing: English
• Tirrenia Navigazione S.p.A.  location facilities: ship scenes

Also Known As:

"Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage" - Italy (original title)
"Emmanuelle in Bangkok" - International (English title)

Runtime:

Australia:92 min | Germany:91 min | USA:87 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:R | Finland:K-18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | France:-16 | Portugal:M/18

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Company:

Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche

Goofs:

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

Movie Connections:

Featured in Black Emmanuelle's Groove (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Black Emanuelle

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***!