Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS
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| Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS | |
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 DVD cover for Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS |
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| Directed by | Don Edmonds |
| Produced by | David F. Friedman |
| Written by | Jonah Royston |
| Starring | Dyanne Thorne George Buck Flower Uschi Digard Sharon Kelly |
| Music by | Horst Wessel |
| Cinematography | Glenn Roland |
| Editing by | Kurt Schnit |
| Release date(s) | 1974 |
| Running time | 96 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Followed by | Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks |
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Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is a 1974 motion picture produced in the USA. The film was directed by Don Edmonds, produced by David F. Friedman and written by Jonah Royston.
It starred Dyanne Thorne as "Ilsa," commandante of a Nazi concentration camp; her character was very loosely based on that of Ilse Koch. Ilsa conducts sadistic scientific experiments designed to demonstrate that women are more capable of enduring pain than men are, and therefore should be allowed to fight in the army. Ilsa is also portrayed as having a voracious sexual appetite for men, whom she then tortures and kills. The film was made on the set of the TV series Hogan's Heroes. "The Butcheress" from BloodRayne was modeled on Ilsa.
The film spawned several equally edifying sequels:
- Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)
- Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977)
- Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977) (this title is actually not an adventure of the Ilsa character. Thorne plays the female lead who is much like Ilsa but is called Greta, but renovations changed parts of the movie to make it look like another Ilsa movie)
These latter films are standard women in prison films which use exotic settings to render the exaggerated sadism of the plots more plausible. She Wolf of the SS is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Despite this half-hearted attempt at cultural sensitivity, the film is banned in Germany.
Its over-the-top subject matter has turned the film into a cult movie. Perhaps the best explanation for its notoriety is that it is a cinematic version of the "men's adventure" subgenre of pulp magazine. Nazis tormenting damsels in distress were perennial favourite subjects for the lurid, sub-pornographic covers of sensationalistic "true adventure" magazines such as Argosy in the 1950s and 1960s; the film seeks to be a more explicit reversal of the same sort of sexual fantasy.
Recently in the 2007 Movie Grindhouse (film), a fake trailer was shown for a movie called "Werewolf Women of the S.S." by Rob Zombie.
[edit] Cast
- Dyanne Thorne .... Ilsa
- Gregory Knoph .... Wolfe ([1] obviously pseudonym only for this movie)
- Tony Mumolo .... Mario (IMDb entry)
- Maria Marx .... Anna ( IMDb entry)
- Nicolle Riddell .... Kata ( IMDb entry)
- Jo Jo Deville .... Ingrid ( IMDb entry - obviously pseudonym only for this movie)
- Sandy Richman .... Maigret ( IMDb entry - stunt woman)
- George Buck Flower .... Binz (as C.D. Lafleuer)
- Rodina Keeler .... Gretchen ( IMDb entry - obviously pseudonym only for this movie
- Richard Kennedy .... General (as Wolfgang Roehm) (IMDb entry )
- Lance Marshall .... Richter (IMDb entry - obviously pseudonym)
- Big-busted prisoners:
- Sandy Dempsey .... Prisoner (uncredited) (IMDb entry - erotic actress
- Uschi Digard .... Naked woman in gas-chamber (uncredited)
- Sharon Kelly (actress) .... (uncredited) (IMDb entry - erotic actress, more popular as Colleen Brennan
- Peggy Sipots .... Prisoner (uncredited) (IMDb entry - pseudonym)
- Donna Young .... Prisoner (uncredited) (IMDb entry - no porn, some movies with Ed Wood, more popular as Donna Desmond
