Emmanuelle in Soho

Emmanuelle in Soho
Directed by David Hughes
Produced by John M. East[1]
Screenplay by
  • Brian Daly
  • John M. East[1]
Music by Barry Kirsch[1]
Cinematography Don Lord[1]
Edited by David Woodward[1]
Production
companies
Roldvale[1]
Distributed by Tigon[1]
Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
[1]
Running time
 67 minutes[1]
Country United Kingdom[1]

Emmanuelle in Soho is a 1981 British sex film directed by David Hughes and produced by David Sullivan, and starring Angie Quick (under the name 'Mandy Miller'), Julie Lee and John M. East.[2] The film tells the story of half-Chinese Kate Benson (played by Lee) and her photographer husband Paul (Kevin Fraser) who share their Bayswater home with a nymphomaniac stripper, Emmanuelle (played by Quick). The two women attempt to find work in the sex industry in Soho, and get mixed up with a sleazy, and unscrupulous theatrical agent, Bill Anderson (played by East).

The film premiered in Sheffield and transferred to London where it ran for 10 weeks at the Eros cinema on Piccadilly Circus followed by 25 weeks at the Moulin in Great Windmill Street. There is also a hardcore versions of this film - such a version was released in Hong Kong cinemas where it ran for nearly three years.[3] The US release included a 6-minute mini-documentary prologue about the sex industry in Soho.[4]

Cast

  • Angie Quick as Emmanuelle of Soho
  • Julie Lee as Kate Benson
  • John M. East as Bill Anderson
  • Kevin Fraser as Paul Benson
  • Gavin Clare as Mr. Cole
  • Tim Blackstone as Derek
  • Geraldine Hooper as Jill
  • Anita Desmarais as Sheila Burnette
  • Georges Waser as Tom Poluski
  • Erika Lea as Judy
  • Kathy Green as Sammy
  • Suzanne Richens as a Showgirl
  • John Roach as Albert

[1]

Reception

In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin described the film as "of marginal interest for its unabashed portrait of the neighbourhood's tawdry illicit wares." The review noted "slipshod scripting is about par for the course"[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pym, John (1981). "Emmanuelle in Soho". Monthly Film Bulletin. London: British Film Institute. 48 (564): 152–153.
  2. ↑ "Emmanuelle in Soho (1981)". British Film Institute.
  3. ↑ Simon Sheridan (9 May 2013). "Julie Lee-The Last Star of Sexploitation". Mary Millington.
  4. ↑ Johnny Stanwyck. "Emmanuelle in Soho (1981)". The Grindhouse Effect.

Further reading

  • Simon Sheridan Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema 2011 (fourth edition) (Titan Publishing, London) ISBN 0857682792
  • Simon Sheridan Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of Mary Millington 1999 (FAB Press, Guildford)
  • Sweet, Matthew. Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema. Faber and Faber, 2005.


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