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The French titles LES NUITS BRULANTES DE LINDA actually translates as LINDA'S HOT NIGHTS or THE HOT NIGHTS OF LINDA (which sounds more stilted). I've seen it only once but remember it as belonging with the best of Franco's work from this time period -- sometimes unpleasant, but absorbing all the same, as you say.

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All the Franco books talk only about this hardcore version. But this film was actually shot as softcore and then released in France as a deeply different hardcore movie (with additional footage and huge cuts). Give a look at p. 107 of "Obsession". You can see a pressbook page of a film entitled "Mais qui donc a viole Linda?". This is the original film, which has a lot of nudity but isn't a porn, and is much more interesting and coherent than LES NUITS.... The existance of the pressbook demonstrates that the film was released in this version in France, before it becomes LES NUITS..... (note that the image of Lina Romay and Pierre Taylou isn't in the hc version). In the same softcore cut, it was released in Italy as LA FELICITA' NEL PECCATO (with some difference in the music score) and was exported as BUT WHO RAPED LINDA?, dubbed in English and with the original score. In early '80s, the same softcore version was broadcasted in Spanish TV as HABITACION PROIBIDA, dubbed in Spanish. But strangely, the only known version is the hardcore. Even Alain Petit, in his MANACOA FILES, seems to ignore the original version. Note that the Spanish, Italian and English versions were all available! I have all of them on DVD-R.

This film was produced by Lesoeur's Eurociné (they released it also as an "Emmanuelle" film, like they did with TENDER AND PERVERSE EMMANUELLE, which also wasn't an Emmanuelle film!). Most of the Franco movies produced by Lesoeur are surfacing on R1 DVD. Why US companies don't release this one? I suppose this happens because everybody in the "Franco world" think that this is porn. But this is not true: MAIS QUI DONC A VIOLE LINDA? is a fascinating softcore tragicomedy, definitely in my Franco top 10. Somebody should inform Image, BU and Shriek Show about this.

As regards VIRGIN, I don't think the Image DVD is yet the original film. The editing has some problems exactly where the awful inserts were placed. I wonder if we'll never see the original, the title of which was also different.

Not a hardcore movie. All these US companies could release the original and far superior softcore film. It just needs to contact Lesoeur and asking him to make a search at Eurociné's archives.