OVER Easter, I have been watching a lot of “Carry on Films” one I haven’t seen in a while was the carry on team’s parody of the Emmanuelle film “Carry On Emmannuelle” (1978) so I turned to the internet to find a viewing. Of the old brigade, still around and willing to sign up Kenneth Williams starred with stalwarts Joan Sims, Jack Douglas, Kenneth Connor, and Peter Butterworth having roles in the film not their finest hour.
Suzanne Danielle is quite superb as Emmannuelle and her sexy, knowing performance is even more remarkable considering her limited acting experience at the time.
The film revolves around the French Ambassadors wife (Suzanne Danielle) who hopes of resurrecting her sex life with her husband Emile (Kenneth Williams) who lost his sex drive following a sky-diving accident (There was no little blue pills in the seventies). His wife knickers are dropped first on the way to join her husband when she leads the way for a sexually inept passenger to join the mile high club whereby Concorde’s famous dropped nose cone stands erect. The sexual innuendo of the Carry Ons was being replaced by cheap smut and jokes.
Emmannuelle tried to satisfy her ravenous sexual appetite with any Tom, Dick and Harry what no Jean. No one could escape her lustful charms be it political figures or entire football teams who queued up to sample her wares which involves her kissing each of them slightly and that's it no nudity from her. Emmannuelle's seduction of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police causes the New Scotland Yard sign to sway back and forth in time to their lovemaking! Was I meant to laugh? The so call humour if you can call it humour was flying over my head I just couldn’t see it and didn’t want to get it anyway.
The guy from the plane can't get Emmannuelle out of his mind and starts stalking her, going to the press about her sexual conquests when his love isn't requited. Which of course is a scandal but who cares and may have been why the film was a big flop. No one cared! The cheeky sexual innuendo has most definitely gone walk about replaced by obvious sex jokes.
I think you can tell I was not a fan of the film but the pervy side of me enjoyed Suzanne Danielle she was a saucy little sort very pleasing on the eye. She was often scantily clad, she looked the part, and her French accent was slipping continuously which was about the one funny laugh in the film. I actually paid money in the cinema to see this film back in 1978 in the ABC cinema on Queen Street, Cardiff. I have given a star to this film mainly down to Ms Danielle.
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