{{Infobox film | name = Black Emanuelle 2 | image = The_New_Black_Emanuelle.jpg | caption = | director = [[Bitto Albertini]]<br>(as Albert Thomas) | producer = | writer = Bitto Albertini <br />Mario Mariani | narrator = | starring = Shulamith Lasri<br> [[Angelo Infanti]] | music = Don Powell | cinematography = [[Guglielmo Mancori]] | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1976|07|31|df=yes}} | runtime = 91 minutes | country = Italy | language = [[Italian language|Italian]] | budget = }} '''''Black Emanuelle 2''''' ([[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Emanuelle nera nº 2'', also known as ''The New Black Emanuelle'' and ''Black Emanuelle No 2''), is a 1976 Italian psychological [[drama film|drama]]-[[sexploitation film]] directed by [[Bitto Albertini]]. It is an unofficial sequel of ''[[Black Emanuelle]]''.<ref name=stracult>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario dei film italiani stracult|year=1999|publisher=Sperling & Kupfer, 1999|isbn=8820029197|page=256}}</ref><ref name=tropico>Manlio Gomarasca. "Nero su bianco - Emanuelle nera n° 2" in AA.VV. ''Al tropico del sesso'', ''Nocturno Dossier'' (35). November 2005. p. 32.</ref>
==Background== Nominally a sequel to Albertini's successful 1975 sexploitation film ''Black Emanuelle'', ''Black Emanuelle 2'' differs greatly in plot. It stars [[Israel]]i actress Shulamith Lasri (in her sole film)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Marino|first=Patrizio|date=2 November 2020|title=EMANUELLE NERA: TUTTI I FILM DELLA SERIE EROTICA ISPIRATA AD EMMANUELLE|work=Movieplayer.it|url=https://movieplayer.it/news/emanuelle-nera-tutti-film-serie-erotica-ispirata-emmanuelle_89148/|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> as Emanuelle Richmond Morgan, a supermodel in a state of profound [[amnesia]] confined to a [[mental institution]] in [[New York City]].<ref name=tropico/><ref>[http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/fiche/cine+-club/telefilm/49551144/justine-bonne-a-tout-faire-2.html Justine bonne à tout faire 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113044343/http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/fiche/cine+-club/telefilm/49551144/justine-bonne-a-tout-faire-2.html |date=2015-01-13 }}. ''[[Le Figaro]]''. Retrieved 13 January 2015.</ref> Lasri credited as "Emanuelle Nera".<ref name=stracult/><ref name=tropico/> The lead actor, as in the first film, is [[Angelo Infanti]]; he plays an entirely different character, however.<ref name=tropico/> The film was shot was variously shot in [[Rome]], [[New York City]] and [[Venice]].<ref name=tropico/>
==Plot== Emanuelle Richmond Morgan (Shulamith Lasri) is an [[African American]] [[supermodel]] married to [[basketball]] star Fred Morgan (Percy Hogan). She had visited [[Beirut]] in July 1976 and fell in the centre of the [[Lebanese Civil War]]. She has been going through a state of [[amnesia]] since then, kept at a [[mental institution]] in [[Manhattan]]. Dr. Paul Gardner ([[Angelo Infanti]]) who is in charge of the clinic takes a special interest in Richmond's case and begins to personally investigate her past, starting with the photographer John Farmer (Franco Cremonini) who was with her in Beirut.
==Cast== * Shulamith Lasri as [[Emanuelle]] Richmond Morgan (credited as Sharon Lesley) * [[Angelo Infanti]] as Dr. Paul Gardner * Percy Hogan as Fred Morgan * [[Dagmar Lassander]] as Susan Gardner * Danielle Ellison as Sharon, Paul's Niece * Franco Cremonini as John Farmer * Don Powell as Emanuelle's Father * [[Pietro Torrisi]] as Simon * [[Attilio Dottesio]] as The General
==Reception== The film was generally badly received by critics. According to Manlio Gomarasca, it has an "unattractive story", in which "it is not clear if the irony that winds throughout the film is voluntary or not".<ref name=tropico/> Film critic [[Paolo Mereghetti]] wrote that the film is "extremely poor", and her lead actress has "generous shapes but a rare inexpressiveness".<ref name=Mereghetti>{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=8860736269|page=561}}</ref> In its ''[[DVD Talk]]'' review, it is described as "flat, tedious and barely thrilling" and as "a relatively daft and boring entry into the cycle".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kurt Dahlke|title=Black Emanuelle's Box, Vol. 2 - Review|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/31425/black-emanuelles-box-vol-2/|access-date=13 January 2015|publisher=[[DVD Talk]]|date=November 13, 2007}}</ref> In his [[DVD Verdict]] review, Daryl Loomis wrote that the film is "mind-numbingly dull and looks like a grouping of unconnected scenes".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Daryl Loomis|title=Black Emanuelle's Box, Volume 2|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/blackemanuellesboxvol2.php|access-date=13 January 2015|publisher=[[DVD Verdict]]|date=December 9, 2007}}</ref>
==See also == * [[List of Italian films of 1976]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0074474}}
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