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Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali (1977)
Country of Origin: Italy
Year of Production: 1977
Running Times: 82m (UK)/85m (France)/91m (West Germany)
Length: 2424 metres
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Telecolor
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Director: Joe
D'Amato (real name: Aristide
Massaccesi)
CREW
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Flora Film S.r.l. / Fulvia Film / Gico Cinematografica
S.r.l.
Producer: Gianfranco Couyoumdjian
Production Managers: Fabrizio
De Angelis, Paolo Gargano
SCRIPT
Script: Aristide
Massaccesi, Romano Scandariato
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Donatella Donati
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Aristide
Massaccesi
Camera Operator: Enrico Biribicchi
Assistant Camera: Enzo Frattari
Gaffer: Fernando Massaccesi
Key Grip: Aldo Stella
Stills: Marcello Laurenti
Lab: Technicolor S.p.a., Roma, Italy
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Alberto Moriani
1st Assistant Editor: Carmela Anzalone
2nd Assistant Editor: Massimo Zaccariello
MUSIC
Music: Nico Fidenco
Conductor: Giacomo Dell'Orso
Song: Nico Fidenco (Make Love on the Wing)
Song Performed By: Ulla Linder (Make Love on the Wing)
SOUND
Boom Operator: Guglielmo Smeraldi
Sound Engineer: Gianni Zampagni
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
1st Make Up: Fabrizio Sforza
2nd Make Up: Antonio Maltempo
Hair: Adriana Sforza
Wigs: Rocchetti-Carboni
Costume Designer: Silvana Scandariato
Wardrobe: Clary Mirolo
Costumes: Mario Russo Sartoria
Footwear: I.C.P.
Jewels: Nino Lembo
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects Artist: Fabrizio Sforza
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Fabrizio
De Angelis
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Carlo Ferri
Set Dressing: Rancati
Drapes: D'Angelo
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Claudio Bernabei
Production Accountant: Ilo Saccà
Production Secretary: Dario Armellini
Firearms: Gino Vagniluca
Still Photo Library: Atelier Fotografico
LOCATIONS
Locations: American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, New York City,
New York, USA; Fogliano, Latina, Lazio, Italy (credited as Tapurucuara,
Amazonas, Brazil); New York City, New York, USA
Studio: In.Ci.R. De Paolis, Rome, Italy
CAST
Laura Gemser (Emanuelle)
Gabriele Tinti (Professor Mark Lester)
Susan Scott (real name: Nieves Navarro) (Maggie McKenzie)
Donald O'Brien (Donald McKenzie)
Percy Hogan (Salvadore)
Mónica Zanchi (Isabelle Wilkes)
Annamaria Clementi (Sister Angela)
Geoffrey Copleston (Wilkes)
Tapu Ruguru
Dirce Funari
Pierluigi Cervetti Valle
Bona Bono
Maria Gabriella Mezzett
Massimo Ciprari
Giuseppe Auci
Al Yamanouchi (guide)
PLOT SUMMARY
Journalist Emanuelle is undercover in a New York psychiatric hospital
and witnesses a nurse having her breast bitten off by another female
patient. Emanuelle discovers a strange tattoo on the perpetrator that
leads her to Amazon in search of a supposedly extinct tribe of cannibals.
Along the way there's much sex and violence as Emanuelle and her party
team up with a nun and a couple searching for a plane that crashed while
carrying a consignment of diamonds.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Typical of a Joe
D'Amato exploiter from the 70s, this is a curious mix of softcore
sex, outrageous, if unconvincing, hardcore violence and far too much
tedium to make it worth sitting through. It has no pretensions, which
is a plus, but that's not enough to make it worthwhile. One for Italian
cannibal completists only.
AVAILABILITY
Canada
Theatrical Distributor: CIC
Video Distributor: Ambassador Film Distributors (1982)
Denmark
Video Distributor: Video Action
Germany
Video Distributor: X-Rated Kultvideo
Italy
Theatrical Distributor: Florida Distribuzione (1977)
Video Distributor: Shendene e Moizzi Associati
Netherlands
Video Distributor: VFP
Russia
Video Distributor: Korporatsiya Arena
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Michael Green Ltd (1978)
Video Distributors: Entertainment
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Megastar Films (1984)
Video Distributors: Twilight Video; Threat Theatre
DVD Distributor: Media Blasters (SSDVD0315)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: R
Finland
Rating: K-18
West Germany
Rating: 18
TIMELINE
1977
October
20: Italy - passed by the ratings board
21: Italy – theatrical release
1978
September
6: France – theatrical release
December
22: West Germany – theatrical release
1980
February
14: Finland – theatrical release
1984
June
Day Unknown: USA – theatrical release
2003
June
24: USA - DVD release (Media Blasters (SSDVD0315))
POSTER TAGS
That Emanuelle girl is back more EROTIC & EXOTIC than
ever
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Bloody Track - Frence video title
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Emanuelle chez les cannibales - French title
Emanuelle en de laatste cannibalen - Dutch title
Emanuelle ja viimeiset kannibaalit - Finnish title
Emanuelle på safari... - Danish video title
Emanuelle prisonnière des cannibales - French
Canadian video title
Emanuelle und die letzten Kannibalen - West German
title
Emanuelle y los últimos caníbales - Spanish
title
Emanuelle's Amazon Adventure
Nackt unter Kannibalen - West German title
Trap Them and Kill Them
Viol sous les tropiques - French title
LINKS
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut (1999)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Bianco e Nero vol.39 no.5/6 (September/December
1978) p.252 (Italy)
credits
Continental Film Review vol.25 no.6 (April
1978) p.17 (UK)
review
Delirium no.2 (UK)
credits, review
European Trash Cinema vol.2 no.10 pp.35-36
(USA)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.45 no.534 (July
1978) p.133 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Screen International no.141 (3 June 1978)
p.17 (UK)
review
Spaghetti Cinema no.8 (October 1985)
pp.25-26 (USA)
synopsis, review
Variety 6 June 1984 pp.20, 32 (USA)
credits, synopsis, review
BOOKS
aka: Joe D'Amato p.18
credits
Invasion Book pp.37-38
review
KEYWORDS
air crashes, aircraft, alligators, amazonia, the amazon, cannibals,
cannibalism, castrations, chimpanzees, decapitations, diamonds, evisceration,
expeditions, jungles, psychiatric hospitals, quicksand, rape, sex, snakes,
south America, tattoos, tribes
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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