Indeed, the only ones losing out would be those hapless enough to fork out for Emmanuelle in Soho, but there were plenty of them at the time. But if this film is recalled for anything, it was the fact that this was the end of the line for the British sex comedy that had arrived over a decade before in the later sixties. Their parents had been the Carry On series and the run of nudist movies designed to get around censorship laws with such innocuously presented nudity that nobody would object to them, but by the time this sorry effort was inflicted on the great British public, they were looking decidedly passé. Simon Sheridan Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema 2011 (fourth edition) (Titan Publishing, London) ISBN 0857682792

Emmanuelle in Soho was one of the last theatrically released movies of the British sexploitation era. A big hit when it was first released in UK cinemas in 1981, it is now largely forgotten. The film has never been shown on TV and has only recently been widely available on video cassette. a b Upton, Julian (2004). Fallen Stars: Tragic Lives and Lost Careers. Headpress/Critical Vision. p.46. ISBN 9781900486385. Emmanuelle in Soho was one of the last British softcore films to receive a theatrical release before the abolition of the Eady Levy and the growth of home video led to the virtual disappearance of British low-budget exploitation film-making. [3] In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin described the film as "of marginal interest for its unabashed portrait of the neighbourhood's tawdry illicit wares". The review noted that the "slipshod scripting is about par for the course". [1] See also [ edit ]

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Simon Sheridan Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of Mary Millington 1999 (FAB Press, Guildford) a b c d e f g h i j k l Pym, John (1981). "Emmanuelle in Soho". Monthly Film Bulletin. London: British Film Institute. 48 (564): 152–153. The film premiered in Sheffield and transferred to London where it ran for 10 weeks at the Eros cinema on Piccadilly Circus followed by 25 weeks at the Moulin in Great Windmill Street. There is also a hardcore versions of this film - such a version was released in Hong Kong cinemas where it ran for nearly three years. [4] The US release included a 6-minute mini-documentary prologue about the sex industry in Soho. [5] Cast [ edit ]

Today it's definitely worth another look. It's a camp classic for fans of low budget British movies. Neither particularly sexy and certainly only unintentionally funny it still proves to be a revelation for anyone watching!