Blue Belle

La fine dell'innocenza
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed byMassimo Dallamano
Screenplay by
  • Massimo Dallamano
  • Marcello Coscia[1]
Story by
  • Massimo Dallamano
  • Marcello Coscia[1]
Produced byHarry Alan Towers[2]
StarringAnnie Belle
Felicity Devonshire
Ciro Ippolito
Charles Fawcett
CinematographyFranco Delli Colli[1]
Edited byNicholas Wentworth
Music by
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

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

Cast

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Reception

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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

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