Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade

Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
Theatrical poster
Directed by Joe D'Amato[1]
Produced by Gianfranco Couyoumdjian[1]
Screenplay by
  • Romano Scandariato
  • Joe D'Amato
Story by Joe D'Amato[1]
Starring Laura Gemser
Music by Nico Fidenco[1]
Cinematography Joe D'Amato[1]
Production
company
  • Fulvia Cinematografica
  • Gico Cinematografica
  • Flora film[1]
Release date
 28 April 1978 (Italy)
Running time
 88 minutes
Country Italy

Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade (Italian: La via della prostituzione/ Prostitution Street) 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.

Plot

Emanuelle is in Kenya to arrange an interview with the Italian American gangster George Lagnetti (Venantino Venantini, "Giorgio Rivetti" in the English dub). 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 puts her to a dangerous quest at the San Diego mansion of Madame Claude (Gota Gobert), which functions as a brothel for top-level dignitaries and civil servants.

Cast

Background

Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade features the investigative journalist character known to her readers as 'Emanuelle' (Laura Gemser). As usual with most D'Amato films, it is also an attempt to capitalise on the commercial success of the 1977 film The French Woman. The film is one of the Black Emanuelle films with the heaviest censorship, eight minutes cut in a theatrical release.[3]

Release

Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade was released in Italy on April 20, 1978.[4]

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pym, John (1979). "Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 46 no. 540. British Film Institute. p. 130.
  2. ↑ "Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ Stracult: Dizionario dei film italiani (2004), Marco Giusti, Frassinelli, Roma, ISBN 8876848134
  4. ↑ Buchanan, Jason. "Via Della Prostituzione". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
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