The Black Emanuelle movies are probably the definition of "problematic" with all the misogyny, colonialism, and mondo movie cultural rubber necking, but I'll be damned if they aren't worth their weight in gold in awesome travelogue footage. I know it was all meant as padding in between the hot and heavy sexy times, but because of that, ""Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade" gives you glorious stretches of grimy and gritty 70s NYC and authentically real you-are-there footage of 70's Kenya. Sure, well heeled and polished A-list movies did their share of globe trotting, but they were always stage managed and art directed within an inch of their life. Here a skeleton crew of crazy Italians hopped on a plane with a load of film, a camera, and I guess couple of shiny boards, and just shot the shit of the world in authentic, jet-set fashion. Definitely not for everybody, but I dug it.
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