Blue Belle

1976 British film by Massimo Dallamano

Massimo Dallamano
Marcello Coscia^[1]

Story by

Massimo Dallamano
Marcello Coscia^[1]

Produced byHarry Alan Towers^[2]StarringAnnie Belle
Felicity Devonshire
Ciro Ippolito
Charles FawcettCinematographyFranco Delli Colli^[1]Edited byNicholas WentworthMusic by

Franco Bixio
Vince Tempera
Fabio Frizzi^[1]

Production
companies

Coralta Cinematografica
Italian International Film
Barongreen^[1]

Distributed byP.I.C. Produzione Intercontinentali Cinematografiche^[1]

Release date

1976 (1976)

CountriesUnited Kingdom
Italy^[2]LanguageEnglish

Blue Belle, also known as Annie, is a 1976 drama film directed by Massimo Dallamano and starring Annie Belle, Felicity Devonshire, and Maria Rohm.^[3]^[2] Its Italian title is Fine dell'innocenza (transl. The End of Innocence).^[2]

Premise

A young woman meets up with her older lover after she leaves school.

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."^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Blue Belle [La fine dell'innocenza] (1976)". Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 June 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Blue Belle". BFI Film & Television Database. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
^ "Blue Belle". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
^ "Blue Belle". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 44 (516): 39. 1 January 1977 – via ProQuest.

External links

Blue Belle at IMDb

Films directed by Massimo Dallamano

Bandidos (1967)
A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
Venus in Furs (1969)
Dorian Gray (1970)
What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
Super Bitch (1973)
Innocence and Desire (1974)
What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
The Cursed Medallion (1975)
Blue Belle (1976)
Colt 38 Special Squad (1976)

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Films of Harry Alan Towers