SS Girls
Italy 1976. Director: Jordan B. Matthews (Bruno Mattei)
Cast: Gabriele Carrara, Marina D'Aunia, Vassili Karis, Macha Magall
Aka: La Casa Privata per le SS

During the last days of WW2 Gestapo-Hans (Gabriele Carrara) is assigned to run a brothel in order to find traitors, conspirators and cowards in the German army. For this Hans (they're always named Hans) must train ten chosen girls into love-machines and for this he is helped by the demented professor Jurgen (Allan Collins), the sexy Madame Eva (Macha Magall) and Ingrid, the meanest looking fraulein-commandant you'll find (sorry Ilsa, but Marina D'Aunia is the business). It's not hard finding the guilty traitors, though. They speak with a strong American accent and rave about their Fuhrer being an insane nutcase. One of the traitors is also a samurai. When the traitors are found they have to wear a funny hat and ride a donkey before getting executed. Hans eventually gets a little too carried away and he is himself accused of being a traitor.

Alright, so you saw a variation of this plot under another title, Salon Kitty, but this is by Bruno Mattei so don't expect any improvement. However, if you're a fan of Mattei you'll definitely want to have this avowed guilty pleasure in your collection. It's so twisted and remarkable and wonderfully over the top that it should be impossible for any human being to be particularly offended, despite its nazi setting. Especially fun are the scenes early in the film in which barely dressed girls ("light uniforms") are running around a field with guns, swords, balls etc, learning how to fight and kill and be good. You can almost see director Mattei sitting at the side laughing himself sick. But is it a comedy? Nein, not really. It's a bit hard to actually tell what it is, but mostly it's just silly drivel. A cheap and quickly produced exploitation package of tits and swastikas. Of the actors, the curly-haired Macha Magall was also the saving grace in The Beast in Heat which also included Salvatore Boccaro who cameos here as, I don't know, a hairy nude guy. There is an edited version of SS Girls which has almost 15 minutes of tedious talk and stock-footage (thankfully) removed, but any version is preferable over Mattei's other nazi-flick Women's Camp 119 which is mostly plain tasteless, though much better made.


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