4. Emanuelle And The White Slave Trade (1978)
While interviewing a notorious gangster, our heroine stumbles across a white woman slave trade ring that is operating out of Africa. She snoops about, taking pictures of white women being paraded around like so much meat. A very nasty transvestite is running the action. His confusion over his gender does not stop him from raping Emanuelle. In fact Emanuelle gets gang raped several times over but it isn't disturbing because Emanuelle herself just takes it in her stride. Back in America, Emanuelle teams up with her friend Susan. They start to investigate the baddies and naturally this ends in kinky sex adventures. A threesome, smoking drugs, interracial sex, lesbianism flashes across the viewer's screen at such a dizzying pace it may make you feel quite disoriented. This was D'Amato's final Black Emanuelle film. It is also a pretty tame way to end the franchise - compared to his previous Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals and Emanuelle in America. It unfurls at a steady pace, keeping the tone light and breezy so again acts of sexual violence or depravity are not really presented as big deals - just part of the perpetual groovy 1970s perv-fest that engulfed a lot of society before AIDs came along and circumspection reigned. Once again I will remark on the amazing cinematography and the fabulous 1970s score by Nico Fidenco. The song 'Run Cheetah, Run" is a funky little number that serves as a calling card for Gemser to shed her clothes. You will be glad to know that it is played very frequently!