Blue Belle (also known as Annie, Teenage Emanuelle, The End of Innocence and La fine dell'innocenza) is a 1976 drama film directed by Massimo Dallamano and starring Annie Belle, Felicity Devonshire, and Maria Rohm. It was written by Dallamano and Marcello Coscia.
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Premise
Annie, the mistress of a middle-aged financier, accompanies him on a trip to Hong Kong. When his business interests collapse Annie ends up destitute. She is befriended by a group of socialites and begins her rite of passage in their world.
Cast
Annie Belle as Annie
Felicity Devonshire as Linda
Ciro Ippolito as Angelo
Charles Fawcett as Michael
Al Cliver as Philip
Maria Rohm as Susan
Linda Ho as Genevieve
Yao Lin Chen as Chen
Rik Battaglia as Superintendent
Ines Pellegrini as Sarah
Linda Slade as Caroline
Tim Street as Harry
Ted Thomas as George
Patrizia Banti as Su
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Blue Belle slides comfortably into the apparently still chic hand-me-downs of big sisters Emmanuelle, Black Emanuelle 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) 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."