Weird Wednesday: Emanuelle in Bangkok

If you live in Austin, you probably already know what Weird Wednesday is.  But just in case you don't: it's a film series they do at the Alamo Drafthouse (my second favorite movie theater, after the Paramount). Every Wednesday night, they choose an old, weird movie and show it for a dollar.  The movies are usually pretty bad, but it's fun.  And, hey, it's only a dollar.  Here is the Weird Wednesday page on the Drafthouse website.  A lot of them are seventies skin flicks.  Emanuelle in Bangkok is one such movie.  It is one of a series of Emanuelle movies which stars Laura Gemser as Emanuelle.  The first in the series is called Black Emanuelle, the Italian take on the French Emmanuelle films.  This film actually has more of a plot than a lot of the Weird Wednesday movies, which isn't saying much.  Emanuelle is a freelance journalist who goes to Bangkok on an assignment to get photographs of the king.  At first, she seems to be having a good time in Bangkok, but she runs into trouble when her hotel room is broken into and her camera and passport are stolen.  So she has to go see the consulate in order to get a temporary visa so she can escape to Casablanca, where her lover awaits her.  But she also falls in love with the consulate's daughter during her efforts to escape.  And, of course, has sex at the drop of a hat, to a wildly inappropriate score.  The theme song in this movie vaguely reminded me of the theme song from Disney's Robin Hood.  Seriously.   Though, actually, it wasn't as graphic as I was expecting from the description given before the movie, or as graphic as others they've shown at Weird Wednesday.

That's about all I have to say about that one. In a couple of weeks, they're going to be showing this:

Oh man.  It's going to be ridiculous.