Main Cast: Suzanne Danielle, Kenny Williams, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas, Joan Sims
Release Year: 1978
Country: UK
Run Time: 104 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
The Carry On series is living on fumes in this late entry. An unofficial burlesque of the Emmanuelle series (albeit with a single modification: the spelling of the name was changed to 'Emmannuelle' to avoid legal complications), the film centers upon Emmannuelle Prevert (Suzanne Danielle) and her unsuccessful attempts to make love to her husband Emile (Kenneth Williams), a French ambassador. Emile grants Emmannuelle permission to bed down with anyone she likes and her prodigious intercourse rate turns her into a celebrity and a frequent talk show guest. Meanwhile, Theodore Valentine (Larry Dann) is hopelessly in love with her and wants to marry her. Emmannuelle, however, is obsessed with arousing her husband Emile's sexual desire at almost any cost. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Peter Butterworth - Richmond; Larry Dann - Theodore Valentine; Beryl Reid - Mrs. Valentine; Henry McGee - Harold Hump; Howard Nelson - Harry Hernia; Albert Moses - Doctor; Eric Barker; Bruce Boa; Claire Davenport; Robert Dorning; Jack Lynn; Victor Maddern - Man in the laundrette; Stanley McGeagh; Norman Mitchell; Michael Nightingale
Credit
Jack Shampan - Art Director, Courtenay Elliott - Costume Designer, Gregory Hippolyte - First Assistant Director, Gerald Thomas - Director, Peter Boita - Editor, Eric Rogers - Composer (Music Score), Ken Lynch - Songwriter, Alan Hume - Cinematographer, Roy Goddard - Production Manager, Peter Rogers - Producer, Danny Daniel - Sound/Sound Designer, Lance Peters - Screenwriter
Carry On Emmannuelle is the 30th Carry On film, and was released in 1978. This was the last Carry On film to be made until Carry On Columbus in 1992.
Carry On Emmannuelle featured a change in style, becoming more openly sexual. This was highlighted by the implied behaviour of Suzanne Danielle, though she does not bare any more flesh than any other Carry On female lead. These changes brought the film closer to the then popular series of X-rated Confessions... comedies, or indeed the official Emmanuelle films it parodies.
This was the only film in the series to be certified AA by the then British Board of Film Censors. This restricted audiences to those aged fourteen and over.
Plot summary
A spoof of Emmanuelle, the film revolves around the eponymous heroine, the beautiful Emmannuelle Prevert, and her unsuccessful attempts to make love to her husband Emile(Kenneth Williams), a French ambassador. Emile grants Emmannuelle permission to sleep with anyone she likes, and her promiscuity turns her into a celebrity and a frequent talk show guest.
Meanwhile, Theodore Valentine is besotted with her and wants them to get married. But Emmannuelle is obsessed with arousing her husband's sexual desire at almost any cost.
References
Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (third edition) (2007) (Reynolds & Hearn Books)
The Carry On Companion by Robert Ross (1996) (Batsford Books)
