Laura Gemser said that in every film she made with director Joe D'Amato, he tried many times to make her film hardcore porn scenes, but she always gave him a resounding "No!."
Laura Gemser said later that the Emanuelle films were all the same, adding "It seemed like one long, long movie that didn't end. You know, it was always the same story, the same things happens." In every film, she played a journalist or a photographer sent out to find some drug criminals, and she always had to strip naked or have sex to get what she needed. She admitted she continued to do them because they paid well and she got to travel to exotic locations, which she loved. That made continuously taking her clothes off and kissing and rubbing against other people tolerable.
When this film was originally submitted to the BBFC in the UK in 1978, it was a film version that was cut to run at 87 minutes. When re-submitted for video in 1987, however, the uncut soft-core version was submitted with a PAL running time of 94 minutes (which is 97 minutes for film and NTSC running times) and was cut by 15 minutes, 45 seconds PAL running time (16 minutes, 24 seconds film/NTSC running time), bringing the final running time to 77 minutes, 27 seconds PAL (80 minutes, 41 seconds film/NTSC). It has yet to be re-released on DVD in the UK.
Model/actress Kristine DeBell is featured late in the film: she is the Beauty Pagent winner who gets violated on the docks of New York by a group of lecherous men... DeBell has no spoken lines but she does appear nude.
When released in the UK on VHS in the 1980's, under the title 'Confessions of Emanuelle', the film was cut by an astonishing 16 minutes. This 'XXX European version' was released on DVD in America 2007.