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: ''Emanuelle nera nº 2'', also known as ''The New Black Emanuelle'' and ''Black Emanuelle No 2''), is a 1976
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directed by Bitto Albertini. It is an unofficial sequel of ''
Black Emanuelle ''Black Emanuelle'' (Italian language, Italian: ''Emanuelle nera'') is a Softcore pornography, softcore sexploitation film from 1975 directed by Bitto Albertini. The film was set in Africa and shot mostly in Kenya. The music was composed by Nico ...
''.Manlio Gomarasca. "Nero su bianco - Emanuelle nera n° 2" in AA.VV. ''Al tropico del sesso'', ''Nocturno Dossier'' (35). November 2005. p. 32.


Background

Nominally a sequel to Albertini's successful 1975 sexploitation film ''Black Emanuelle'', ''Black Emanuelle 2'' differs greatly in plot. It stars
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i actress Shulamith Lasri (in her sole film) as Emanuelle Richmond Morgan, a supermodel in a state of profound
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confined to a
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in
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. Lasri credited as "Emanuelle Nera". The lead actor, as in the first film, is
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; he plays an entirely different character, however. The film was shot was variously shot in
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Plot

Emanuelle Richmond Morgan (Shulamith Lasri) is an
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married to
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star Fred Morgan (Percy Hogan). She had visited
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in July 1976 and fell in the centre of the
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. She has been going through a state of
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since then, kept at a
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in
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. Dr. Paul Gardner (
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) who is in charge of the clinic takes a special interest in Richmond's case and begins to personally investigate her past, starting with the photographer John Farmer (Franco Cremonini) who was with her in Beirut.


Cast

* Shulamith Lasri as
Emanuelle Emmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French erotic films based on the protagonist in the novel of the same name, by Emmanuelle Arsan, written in 1959 and published in 1967. Emmanuelle originated as the pen name ''Emmanuelle Arsan'' ...
Richmond Morgan (credited as Sharon Lesley) *
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as Dr. Paul Gardner * Percy Hogan as Fred Morgan *
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as Susan Gardner * Danielle Ellison as Sharon, Paul's Niece * Franco Cremonini as John Farmer * Don Powell as Emanuelle's Father * Pietro Torrisi as Simon *
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as The General


Reception

The film was generally badly received by critics. According to Manlio Gomarasca, it has an "unattractive story", in which "it is not clear if the irony that winds throughout the film is voluntary or not". Film critic
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wrote that the film is "extremely poor", and her lead actress has "generous shapes but a rare inexpressiveness". In its ''
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'' review, it is described as "flat, tedious and barely thrilling" and as "a relatively daft and boring entry into the cycle". In his
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review, Daryl Loomis wrote that the film is "mind-numbingly dull and looks like a grouping of unconnected scenes".


See also

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List of Italian films of 1976 A list of films produced in Italy in 1976 (see 1976 in film): References Footnotes Sources * * External linksItalian films of 1976at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 1976 1976 Films A film, al ...


References


External links

* {{IMDb title, 0074474 1976 films Films directed by Bitto Albertini Italian sexploitation films Italian erotic drama films 1970s erotic drama films 1970s Italian-language films Films set in Manhattan Films shot in New York City Emanuelle Unofficial sequel films 1976 drama films 1970s Italian films 1970s French films