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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 that therefore women should be recruited to fight in the army. Ilsa is also portrayed as having a voracious sexual appetite for men whom she discards by torturing and murdering them afterwards. The film was made on the set of the TV series Hogan's Heroes.

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.

The film dedicates itself to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Despite this attempt to reach for social relevance, the film is banned in Germany and in Norway (March 20th, 2006: This is not certain, but as the movies are available from Norwegian movie distributor ScanBox, it is doubtful that it is still banned). Elsewhere, 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 cinematized 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 version of the same sort of sexual fantasy.

Cast

Dyanne Thorne
.... Ilsa
Gregory Knoph .... Wolfe ( obviously pseudonym only for this movie)
Tony Mumolo .... Mario ()
Maria Marx .... Anna ( )
Nicolle Riddell .... Kata ( )
Jo Jo Deville .... Ingrid ( - obviously pseudonym only for this movie)
Sandy Richman .... Maigret ( - stunt woman)
George Buck Flower .... Binz (as C.D. Lafleuer)
Rodina Keeler .... Gretchen ( - obviously pseudonym only for this movie
Richard Kennedy .... General (as Wolfgang Roehm) ( )
Lance Marshall .... Richter ( - obviously pseudonym)
Big-busted prisoners:
Sandy Dempsey .... Prisoner (uncredited) ( - erotic actress
Uschi Digard
.... Naked woman in gas-chamber (uncredited)
Sharon Kelly .... (uncredited) ( - erotic actress, more popular as Colleen Brennan
Peggy Sipots .... Prisoner (uncredited) ( - pseudonym)
Donna Young .... Prisoner (uncredited) ( - no porn , some movies with Ed Wood , more popular as Donna Desmond

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