Elsa Fräulein SS

All aboard the sleaze-train! Hitler's latest invention to boost the moral among his exhausted and unmotivated SS-officers. Led by killer shrew Elsa, a former prostitute and overly fanatic patriot, a train filled with ravishing ladies rides to the war fronts and the girls offer sexual services in their carriages. "Salon Kitty" on rails, in other words, and that about summarizes the whole movie. "Elsa Fräulein SS" is a complete rip-off of "Salon Kitty" (they even unmask betrayers and deserters the same way) and "Ilsa – She Wolf of the SS". Elsa has many vile characteristics in common with Ilsa, only she lacks the arrogance and the self-complacency. Also, unlike the above mentioned titles, "Fräulein SS" is boring, tame and it doesn't contain one sequence that qualifies as shocking or even unsettling. There's a lot of nudity, of course, but no obscene sex-scenes or graphic violence. Nazi-exploitation is already a totally redundant horror sub genre as it is, so what's the point of watching another one if there aren't any memorable moments of sickness?? The yodel music is utterly annoying and the scenery looks like secondhand attributes, used in other exploitation movies already. Total turkey! Avoid, unless of course you're on a pointless mission to watch every crappy 70's exploitation movie ever made.

With the war effort going against them and talk of a possible coup against Adolf Hitler, the SS seizes upon the idea of using prostitutes to cavort with officers serving on the front lines in order to determine whether they are loyal to the Fuhrer or not. To do that they appoint a prostitute named "Elsa Ackermann" (Malisa Longo) to the rank of an SS colonel and recruit several nubile young women to assist her. They also give her a train to take them to the Western Front and to use for their sexual activities. Although Colonel Ackermann does indeed catch several disloyal officers, she has to contend with a spy within her group who causes her serious problems as well. Now rather than reveal any more of the plot and risk ruining the film for those who haven't seen it I will just say that, while this movie had a good premise, the low budget accompanied by poor direction caused everything to seem dull and plodding. As a matter of fact, other than the presence of Malisa Longo and Patrizia Gori (as "Liselotte Richter") there really wasn't anything that remarkable about this film. Because of that I rate it as below average.

A train run by Elsa, a sadistic female SS officer (Malisa Longo) and former prostitute is filled with protstitutes that travels around to serve the German army on leave.

A classic Nazisploitation movie that is also known as FRAULEIN DEVIL or CAPTIVE WOMEN 4 that exploits the success of the more stylish SALON KITTY (1976) with also a hint of the ILSA films about it. The beautiful Longo shows off her body at every available opportunity with plenty to please BDSM fans. As a film it is dreadful, but remains an erotic classic with plenty of admirers.

The Nazi sexpolitation film was one of the most tasteless genres in film history. This is is one of the most palatable entries because it was obviously inspired by Tinto Brass' "Salon Kitty" and, like that film, focuses on German girls working as prostitutes in "joy division"-type Nazi brothels as opposed to Jewish girls working as sex slaves or being tortured to death in extermination camps. It's also a French production rather than an Italian one, so it's not particularly graphic (at least as far as the violence goes). Unfortunately, since it's a cheap-jack Eurocine production it's not particularly good either. It even laughably tries to incorporate actual WWII footage into its ludicrous plot.

This is basically the same movie as Eurocine's earlier "Hell Train". It involves a brothel on the rails that is being used to ostensibly to service war-weary officers, but actually to spy on them (a la "Salon Kitty")in case they say something against the Fuhrer. Naturally, a lot of them do--treason I guess is a good subject for post-coital pillow talk--and they are taken off the train and summarily executed. Malisa Longo plays the evil Nazi madam of the brothel, Elsa. Patizia Gorzi plays the spy who steals Elsa's man and undermines her operation.

Naturally, this is not in the class of "Salon Kitty" and (for better or worse) really doesn't begin to compare to the more infamous Nazi death camp movies. It is a minor improvement over "Hell Train" mainly because Longo is far more attractive than Monica Swinn, the villainess in that one, and Patrizia Gorzi gets a lot more naked than Sandra Mazurowsky, her counterpart in "Hell Train" (there's one especially memorable scene of her being tied up naked and very gently whipped). Fulfilling the porno skank quota, French hardcore star Claudine Beccairie appears in in a cameo role (as she did in "Hell Train"). And if you look closely, you might spot Jess Franco-regular Pamela Stanford and Eurocine-regular Nadine Pascal in the supporting cast. It's not a good movie by any means, but at least you probably won't need to take a long, hot shower when its over.

Elsa Ackerman is ordered by the SS to arrange a bordello on a train at the frontlines to keep up the morale among the German officers. The real reason is (of course) to spy on them to find traitors. It is an effective method and a lot of traitors are executed. When Franz, Elsa's boyfriend, is stationed on the train as an interpreter, things starts to go wrong. He falls in love with Liselotte, a spy for `La Resistance' and she convinces him to join them.

This Salon Kitty spin-off is pretty forgettable. The story is bleak and the ending is so sudden that I almost missed it. Elsa is good-looking and nicely evil, but her good properties is wasted in this far to mild flick. There are some memorable scenes though, for example when Elsa and Franz have s&m sex (boot licking) and when Elsa seduces a 20 year old virgin and then executes him. Notable is also that there's NO shower scene! Malisa Longo (Elsa) is also in Salon Kitty and Ilsa she-wolf of the SS. If you feel the need to see a nazisploitation flick (like I usually do) I'd recommend Red nights of the Gestapo, Gestapo's last orgy or Salon Kitty instead. Remember that even a bad nzispolitation is better than most movies!