''Blue Belle'', also known as ''Annie'', is a 1976

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Massimo Dallamano Massimo Dallamano (17 April 1917 – 4 November 1976) was an Italian cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work on Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, and for directing several giallo and poliziotteschi films ...

and starring Annie Belle, Felicity Devonshire, and

Maria Rohm Maria Rohm (13 August 1945 – 18 June 2018) was an Austrian actress and producer. Born Helga Grohmann in Vienna, she started her acting career at the very young age, working at the famous Viennese Burgtheatre as a child actor from ages 4 throug ...

. Its Italian title is ''Fine dell'innocenza'' ().

Premise

A young woman meets up with her older lover after she leaves school.

Cast

* Annie Belle as Annie * Felicity Devonshire as Linda * Ciro Ippolito as Angelo * Charles Fawcett as Michael * Al Cliver as Philip *

as Susan * Linda Ho as Genevieve * Yao Lin Chen as Chen * Rik Battaglia as Superintendent *

Ines Pellegrini Ines Pellegrini (born 7 November 1954) is an Italian retired actress of Eritreans, Eritrean origin. Life and career Though born in Milan, Italy, Pelligrini spent her childhood in the former Italian colony of Eritrea during the Ethiopian Empi ...

as Sarah * Linda Slade as Caroline * Tim Street as Harry * Ted Thomas as George * Patrizia Banti as Su

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those wi ...

'' wrote: "''Blue Belle'' slides comfortably into the apparently still chic hand-me-downs of big sisters '' Emmanuelle'', ''

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 ...

'' and '' Vanessa'', while conducting her own search for truth, sexual fulfilment and box-office receipts in the ever-dependable Orient. Massimo Dallamano (alias Jack Dalmas when he photographed Leone's '' Fistful of Dollars'' and ''

For a Few Dollars More ''For a Few Dollars More'' () is a 1965 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. It stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as bounty hunters and Gian Maria Volonté as the primary villain. Klaus Kinski plays a supporting role as a se ...

'') directs in the current soft-core format: a combination of over-upholstered emptiness and frosty sincerity that effectively reduces characters, locations and story to the level of scenery. Actress Annie Belle re-enacts some of her 'real-life adventures' well enough, but Ines Pellegrini's mysterious features (she played Zumurrud in Pasolini's Arabian Nights) lend this voyage its only real spirituality."

References

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* 1976 films 1970s coming-of-age drama films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Massimo Dallamano British coming-of-age drama films Italian coming-of-age drama films Films produced by Fulvio Lucisano Films scored by Fabio Frizzi 1976 drama films 1970s British films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub