Jill Lansing assumes some bad personality traits after being abandoned by the men in her life in Crown International’s MALIBU HIGH.
Arawa as he observes Laure bath- ing, but there is nothing to sug- gest that he has died. Shortly after, three shots (81:40-82:00) show a native boy reacting in shock to the sight of some pea- cocks! (The editing here is iden- tical in every known version.) It may be that this relates to Gualtier’s claim that “peacocks are the only supernatural beings the Mara believe in,” but my guess is that this sequence was supposed to show the boy com- ing across Arawa’s dead body: shots of the corpse were presum- ably never filmed, with the scene finding its way into release prints through pure carelessness. Severin’s uncut, anamor- phically enhanced 1.85:1 transfer (which runs some 7m longer than the VHS edition released by Vestron as FOR- EVER EMMANUELLE, despite an inaccurate listed running time of 91m) is visually stunning, but the mono English soundtrack is flawed by an annoying back- ground hum. English was the
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language used during filming, which makes the English track preferable (though the actors didn’t do their own English dub- bing), but the inclusion of an optional Italian soundtrack would have been welcome. The credits are in Italian. There are no sub- titles. The two extras are EMMAN- UELLE REVEALED (15m 47s), an English-language interview with Ovidio Assonitis, who provides some fascinating information about Louis-Jacques and his problems with Linda Lovelace, and LAURE: A LOVE STORY (13m 53s) which contains an on-cam- era interview with Al Cliver and a telephone interview with Annie Belle (both in Italian with En- glish subtitles). Severin’s pack- aging claims that “Emmanuelle Arsan—the real Emmanuelle— brings her own lush vision of to- tal sexual abandon to the screen as writer, director and co-star of this rarely seen erotic clas- sic,” thus propagating precisely those myths which the disc’s extras dispel!
MALIBU HIGH / TRIP WITH THE TEACHER
1979/1975, Deimos Entertainment/ BCI Eclipse, DD-2.0/16:9/+, $12.98, 89m 45s/89m 40s, DVD-0 By Tim Lucas
Though both of the Crown International pictures in this “Welcome to the Grindhouse” double feature date from the 1970s, they seem a decade re- moved from each other in lan- guage, comportment, music and wardrobe; MALIBU HIGH is brimming with rough language but the erotic content is tame and cutesy, while TRIP WITH THE TEACHER pushes as many transgressive buttons as it can while keeping its mouth mostly in check. The former, the last film directed by Irv Berwick (THE MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCAS), is in the tradition of Roger Corman’s SORORITY GIRL (1957): high school senior Kim Bentley (Jill Lansing), al- ready emotionally abandoned by her father’s suicide, turns
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