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The cartoonish Ilsa (Dyanne Thorne) is the keeper of the Sheik's (Jerry Delony) harem, and trains the beauties kidnapped from around the world. She is just what you would expect in the role of a Nazi she-bitch.

The Americans are sending a Henry Kissinger type (Richard Kennedy) along with a naval officer (Max Thayer) to try and overthrow the Sheik and get his oil. So, what else is new? Ilsa and her henchwomen, Satin (Tanya Boyd) and Velvet (Marilyn Joi) are ruthless in their methods and devise extreme methods of torture to get what they want.

Despite what Ilsa tells the Sheik, it is apparent that she is becoming close to the naval officer. He becomes tired of her delay and devises punishment that was decidedly extreme.

Of course, there is a bloody Palace coup after that. And, Ilsa gets her reward.

The porn was decidedly soft-core.

As everyone no doubt knows, this is the follow up to the notorious movie Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS. That flick was a real controversial one, seeing as it was mixing a Nazi concentration camp premise with an extremely exploitative story-line. Despite all of this, it was essentially a very exaggerated movie and really quite hard to take very seriously. In Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks Dyanne Thorne returns as the super-bitch Ilsa. In this one she runs a harem for a sleazy sheik. Or more specifically, she is tasked with turning captured women into his sexual slaves. Of course, this involves much elaborate torture and copious amounts of nudity.

If anything, this one is more 'upmarket' than the first film. It has a bigger budget and some decent locations. It's also less controversial subject-wise, although it's still clearly an exploitation movie. The film revolves around sleaze and torture. We have charming things like flesh-eating ants and exploding vaginas after all. So, fear not, this one is still in the same general ball-park as the first. Unfortunately, the sexy Miss Thorne just doesn't get naked enough though, which is somewhat unfortunate and to this movie's detriment. However, we do have a couple of topless female kung-fu experts called Satin and Velvet who rip a poor fool's balls off. And two of the captured slave-girls are played by Russ Meyer regulars Uschi Digard (Supervixens) and Haji (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!). Both of whom are always a welcome presence in any movie.

Despite all of the atrocities, the Ilsa series is basically cartoonish. You cannot take these movies seriously, nor were you intended to. This one, like the others is another combination of gory violence, sleazy erotica and deranged silliness. For my money this one is neither as good as the original, nor Ilsa the Tigress of Siberia. But it's still an entertaining trash-fest.

Rated highly by fans of the grubby 'Ilsa' series but for me it's way the weakest of the four movies. Also as Ilsa (herself), has been transported into different countries, even continents, the character or persona seems to be out of sorts with the subject matter. Still Dyanne Thorne (cult actress No 1), is always larger than life and this Italian style exploiter (extremely nasty in parts), is actually a Canadian, US co production. See it if you must.

Yeah, this first installment of the notorious Ilsa-series is a real goody! It is not as disturbing as "She Wolf" or "The Wicked Warden", but also not as campy as "Tigress" was! Fans of traditional adventure flicks might love it, too. The only difference is, that "Harem Keeper" features much more sex´n violence than you may find in popcorn movies à la "Indiana Jones" and friends..! If you´re a fan of the series you know what´s awaiting you! If not, prepare for a bundled load of sleazy erotic, some bizarre torture and lots of comic-like brutality! Once more Dyanne Thorne is over the top (A pity that she doesn´t take off her clothes more often..!), but also her two African helpers named "Satin" and "Velvet" are put on a show very well! And a film where Swedish supermodel Uschi Digard is casted can´t be that worse..! Exploitation cinema at its best!!!

What a bizarre sexploitation film. A mixture of torture soft porn, schlock horror and political intrigue.

The pneumatic Ilsa who takes out her bazookas for just a few scenes now works for an Arab Sheik's harem cum human trafficking prison camp.

She helps train the kidnapped girls, and gets them patched up after they are tortured. There is a scene where the girls are repaired from their injuries, where the girls are fattened up and where girls are tortured.

You have a scene of body parts to show what happens if you try to escape. You have an auction scene where girls are sold off.

The American government send a naval officer get rid of the Sheik. You have the straight laced officer trying to teach the Sheikh of such things as democracy, human rights, fair trials, innocent until proven guilty.

This was filmed in 1975, long before the 'War on Terror!'

Ilsa falls for the naval officer and for her troubles, the Sheikh gets a leper to ravish her.

Dyanne Thorne has a hoot of a time playing the amoral Ilsa in a Nazi uniform aided and abetted by her two well oiled black henchwomen who truly can turn a man into a eunuch.

It really is curious, not enough horror, laughable torture scenes, too tame and cheesy to be sexy.

It might had raised eyebrows almost 40 years ago for shock value. These days when you have American women getting kidnapped in Europe to be turned into Human Centipedes. Then you can see how much these kind of films have advanced since then.

This follow-up to ILSA, SHE WOLF OF THE SS is another grisly sexploitation movie that mixes depraved violence and torture with endless softcore sex sequences. The film retains the same star and director as the first, although thankfully the unpleasant sequences have been toned down making this a lot tamer. I still found it deeply unpleasant in terms of the violence meted out towards the female cast members.

The story sees Ilsa relocated to the Middle East (or North Africa, it never makes it clear), where she runs the harem of a rich oil sheik. Inevitably she's a sadist at heart, dishing out all manner of depraved and sadistic torture to anybody who dares cross her; the 'highlight' involves one girl being gradually destroyed by various unpleasant methods including flesh-eating ants and an exploding dildo.

Much of the running time is padded out with big breasted women either being stripped or taking part in simulated sex, while some crashingly dull sub-plots involve spies and an attempt to liberate the oppressed. Dyanne Thorne's acting is poor, to say the least, but she does have a lot of presence as the statuesque anti-heroine. The all-action ending is unbelievable but at least it offers incident away from the endless sex and violence.

Full-frontal nudity (in "up close and personal" shots); tarantula torture; flesh-eating ants torture; breast torture; arm amputations; eye gougings; eviscerations; bloody beatings; rape. This is not a film; it's a catalogue of perversions. It's the first "Ilsa" movie I ever watched, and it's gonna be the last. Surprisingly good photography, though. And also a leading man with the most monotonously droning voice you'll ever hear; even Charles Bronson shows more enthusiasm with his line readings. (*1/2)

HAREM KEEPER OF THE OIL SHEIKS, is a relatively decent follow-up to the classic SHE WOLF OF THE SS. This one has the mammoth breasted sadist running a slavery ring for some Sheik. Ilsa trains the girls to be good little sluts, and the expected sleaze begins...Not as powerful as the aforementioned SHE WOLF, HAREM KEEPER has a "lighter" tone and was obviously an attempt to cash-in on the probably unexpected success of SHE WOLF. It also seems the tone was intentionally lightened, probably to draw a larger audience. Not my favorite of the series, I prefer SHE WOLF and the under-rated TIGRESS OF SIBERIA, but this one is still decent. Still a classic exploit film and worth a look - 7/10

Dianne Thorne returns as the (not so) desirable Ilsa, this time making the wealthy Arabian world to her playground. Ilsa is in control of Sheik El Sharif's harem and she arranges the kidnappings of new sex-slaves. The most remarkable difference with the previous `She Wolf of the SS' is the more lightheaded character of this film and the constant presence of humor. Of course, the subject matter is a little less sensitive (Nazi's aren't that funny, you know) and the makers indented to reach a larger audience this time. This resulted in less cruelty, less nudity and a lot less perversion. Yet, this film is still warmly recommended to cult fans and admirers of occult cinema! There are a few slick and ingenious aspects to discover, like the introduction of Ilsa's assistants! Satin and Velvet look like identical twins performing lesbian action, while their uniforms simply exist out of pink thongs! No shocking and nauseating images this time, but a goofy black comedy with a couple of bloody highlights.up to you whether it's an improvement or not.

Dyanne Thorne returns as buxom bitch Ilsa, in 'Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks—the second in the infamous exploitation series that began with the sleazy and repugnant She Wolf of the SS. Where the first film made viewers feel decidedly uneasy due to the controversial 'Nazi concentration camp' setting, Harem Keeper manages a lighter tone due to its comic book premise and tongue-in-cheek execution, yet it still contains enough violence and nudity to keep fans of the first film happy.

This time round the busty blonde sadist is to be found running a harem for evil oil sheik El Sharif, ably assisted by her two topless ball-breakers, Satin and Velvet. The buxom bitch has resorted to kidnapping beautiful women to ensure a steady supply of hot babes for the sheik; it seems that he has a nasty habit of getting carried away during sex and 'damaging' his ladies. Ilsa must train the newest additions to his harem, teaching them how to be subservient and willing to please; any resistance is punished with torture.

Meanwhile, two guests have arrived at the sheiks home; Commander Adam Scott and his associate Kaiser are hoping to convince El Sharif to give up some of his oil which lies untapped beneath the desert. As a last resort, they intend to use incriminating recordings of the sheik, secretly gathered by their undercover spy, to blackmail him into cooperating. Little do they know that the sheik has already rumbled their plan and isn't going to make life easy for them.

Ilsa, however, takes a shine to hunky Commander Adam and indulges in much rumpy-pumpy with him; when the sheik orders her to have Adam killed, she disobeys and leads a revolt against the despicable tyrant.

There is a real sense of fun to this installment of the Ilsa franchise; director Don Edmonds injects huge doses of camp into the proceedings making this film less of a 'guilty' pleasure than the first. Of course, a strong stomach and hardened sensibilities are still beneficial for those who choose to watch—there is still plenty of cheesy gore and inventive torture in evidence to qualify the film as a genuine shocker: a man has his testicles pulled off by Satin and Velvet, a thief has his hand cut off, two women have explosive vaginal implants inserted into them (which are triggered during sex), flesh eating ants eat a woman's foot, and an enemy of the sheik is doused in oil and set on fire.

It may be a different style of movie to the first one, but Ilsa Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheils is a more than worthy sequel and well worth checking out.

I would definitely recommend this movie to any fans of 70's 'B' movie sleaze. Director Don Edmonds manages to pack copious amounts depravity, sex & violence into this flick, with Dyanne Thorne camping it up as the evil Ilsa. Actually, she isn't as evil as she was in the other Ilsa films. but she still manages to hand out several doses of deranged torture on her unfortunate prisoners. The film also features perhaps one of the most brutal film fights ever, when a disobedient male guard is forced to fight Ilsa's thong wearing female personal bodyguards !. I really enjoyed watching this trash - YES it is TRASH, but it KNOWS it's trash & didn't cost millions like Charlies Angels!. Now everyone has come across DVD commentary tracks which are along the lines of 'Yeah I remember that, yeah that was fun etc', but this one actually makes the film even more enjoyable. Thorne & Edmonds give a highly entertaining account of the movie, explaining why many of the performances were so wooden and how low the budget for the movie was. It makes one realise that many of our 'respected' actors would look just as bad as the cast of this movie if they were only allowed one take because the film makers only had a limited amount of film stock!. Not for the squeamish or lovers of 'quality' cinema, but great fun for sleaze addicts!.

They don't make them like they used to. Thin comic book story line, dodgy dialogue delivered questionably, gratuitous nudity, sex, and violence. Nowdays it seems the world is too politically correct to produce work like this so people have to settle for blandness and mediocrity and the most accessible, least offensive "Product" wins. When did "Exploitation" get a bad name? Give me Ilsa any day. The cinematography shows a lot of promise from future Oscar nominee Dean Cundey. It seems Don Edmonds really can pick talent (Tarantino being another "find"). How about an Ilsa film which directly targets the fetish market Don? Quentin could Executive Produce it. At the least I think every action movie ever made could be improved by the inclusion of Satin and Velvet, Ilsa's bodyguards.

1/10 Not only this "movie" is a lot bad but many actor/actress too.

Dyanne Thorne (Ilsa) play like a "brush". I see her in other "movie" and she "play" "better".

Max Thayer (Comander Adam, US Navy) is the best bad actor I see until now I think. Oh my God! A bot will play better than him. If this guy is a actor well i'm the Pope. :) This movie is a joke. Z series. But if you watch (I don't suggest that) it and not take it serious you can laugh.

Tanya Boyd (Satin) and Marilyn Joi (Velvet) play bad too even if they have good body. :P What it's impress me is a guy find money to sell this c**p! If you collect Z series "movies" this one is for you. Else forget it.

In this sequel to "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS" we find that the lead character named "Ilsa" (Dyanne Thorne) has somehow miraculously escaped certain death and is now employed as the madam of a harem belonging to an oil sheik by the name of "El Sharif" (Jerry Delony). Besides being cruel and sadistic El Sharif also has a voracious appetite for new women and because of that Ilsa has gone out of her way to satisfy his lust by kidnapping 3 prominent young women from abroad. What neither of them realize is that this action--along with his tampering of the oil supply to the West--has generated a certain amount of attention which isn't necessarily favorable. As a result a diplomat is dispatched to talk to him about the oil disruption along with an undercover agent named "Adam Scott" (Max Thayer) who seeks to investigate his illegal sex trafficking. Now rather than disclose any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this movie seemed slightly more polished than its predecessor. Along with that I should also add that although these movies are certainly sleazy I don't believe they are meant to be taken seriously. For that reason those with rigid sensibilities might want to consider something else if possible. In any case, while this certainly wasn't a great movie by any means I still found it to be somewhat entertaining and I rate it as slightly above average.

Dyanne Thorne is at her campy (and sultry) finest in this second installment of the Ilsa series, delivering juicy dialogue with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Kudos also go to Victor Alexander, who plays the degenerate Sheik El Sharif to the hilt, as well as C.D. Lafleur for his hilarious Henry Kissinger impersonation. Lest anyone should think this is a comedy, well, it is, sorta... It's also one of the most over the top sleaze fests you'll ever witness. As the old saying goes, they don't make 'em like this anymore. As Harem Keeper begins, we find Ilsa at the head of a white slave ring where her primary duty is to train innocent young girls for service in the lecherous El Sharif's harem. When she's not instructing recruits on proper "tongue" technique, Ilsa also busies herself adding to her stable of eunuchs with the help of her lesbian henchwomen, Satin and Velvet. Yes, Ilsa is your classic man-hater, but the frigid ice goddess soon melts in the arms of the studly American diplomat, who's actually a spy intent on overthrowing the sheik's corrupt government. But let's not let trivial details such as story get in the way of a great performance by Ms. Thorne, who shifts between wicked witch and giggly schoolgirl with ease. Marvel as Ilsa succumbs to her own lustful desires and falls under the spell of some good ol' fashioned "manpower!" Think of it as an adult comic book come to life, full of hardcore gore (at least by 70s standards) and softcore sex, and enjoy it for what is is - trashy exploitation at its best.

Ilsa(Dyanne Thorne)and her two lesbian guards-Satin and Velvet run a harem for depraved sheik(Victor Alexander)Of course women are tortured and abused in front of the audience!This film is much more campier than "Ilsa-She Wolf of the SS" and not nearly as shocking.Still there are some torture scenes and a good amount of sleaze and nudity to satisfy exploitation freaks!Check it out!

This movie is great. I like all the ILSA movies and I consider this one to be a real good one. The best one though is the first one, ILSA SHE WOLF OF THE SS, which is an absolute classic. The third one is also excellent, ILSA TIGRESS OF SIBERIA. The fourth one is the weakest in my opinion and doesnt include DYANNE THORNE in the cast which for me makes the movies enjoyable to watch when she is in them.

The best of the three principal ILSA films, this one's got Dyanne Thorne, Haji Cat and the impossibly pulchritudinous Uschi Digart -- scenes such as the fight with the guards, the various audiences with El Sharif, and the tortures of Haji are just beyond belief! And you don't even want to know about the Love Machine... if you get the DVD, be sure to listen to the Director's Commentary, it's hilarious!

I had only ever seen an edited version of the first Ilsa movie, and didn't care for it much. I recently obtained the uncut box, revisited She Wolf of the SS, and actually found things to like about it (namely, Dyanne Thorne). I have never seen any of the follow-ups. On a sleazy exploitation level, and one that doesn't take itself entirely serious, I gotta say, I enjoyed this one even more than the original.

Wait, Ilsa is back from the grave, no longer a Nazi, no longer German, and now rounds up slave girls for a sadistic oil baron? Correction: Ilsa is not German in the opening scene. She then retains her accent from She Wolf of the SS for the remainder of the film!

I certainly didn't see this sequel coming. Not only is Ilsa slightly toned down, and out-camped by a couple characters (her boss also proves more sadistic), but has enough of a soft spot to fall in love again (seems only American men can adequately satisfy her, and melt her ice-cold demeaner). Not to say she isn't evil in this one. This writer keyed in on guys calling her a "b!#ch," to the point it got a little tiresome. She's still got a mean streak in tormenting people, with the help of her henchwomen, Velvet and Satin, the highlight of the movie for me, with their oily, naked fighting techniques!

This was such a bizarre clash of exploitation, gore, soft-core sex, sexual torture, gunfights, sand, and camp (er, even flat-out comedy), that it's a real treat if you like your movies a bit off-kilter. Even just watching the Ilsa character put in an entirely different setting, yet still retaining her key attributes, was a lot of fun.

No surprise, acting's a real mixed bag. You've got OTT hamming it up, ridiculous fight sequences, lots of "arabs," people committed to live in cesspools (uh, dummy or not?), a child actor who I'm sure was TOLD to ham it up, some buxom slave girls from Russ Meyer's stable, and one particular actor (the American spy) who plays his part at about 15 watts. In the wild and woolly world of Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, he plays this part about as subdued as death (AND opposite Wacky Henry Kissinger!). I've gotta listen to the commentary, there must be a story behind his performance.

Anyway, this one effectively scratched that outrageous 70's exploitation itch for me.

Although Ilsa's first film was not well received by critics, the financial success it had was enough to make this second film. It cannot be considered a sequel exactly because the Ilsa films do not have continuity and each film is independent with only Ilsa as the only thing that connects the films. Basically, each movie features an alternate universe with different variants of Ilsa. This second film presents us with an alternate reality where Ilsa now works for the harem as a trafficker of women to be sold as slaves. Dyanne Thorne does not detach herself from her character at all and she is certainly the best thing in the entire film. Ilsa still has the same perverse and sadistic personality as her Nazi counterpart. You could say that Ilsa is the one who saves the entire film because it must be admitted that there was no need to make a second installment. The level of nudity and eroticism in this film feels a bit higher than the previous film. There are brutal and violent scenes, but they feel less visceral than in the previous film. There isn't even that much blood and gore making this film less impactful and there are even moments that fall into humor. As an exploitation film it manages to do its job, but as a sequel it feels like just another one of the bunch. Ilsa, Harem Keeper Of The Oil Sheiks is a film that does not fail to offer entertainment and a bit of impact, but it is inevitable to think that it is an unnecessary sequel when it comes time to compare it with its predecessor. My final rating for this movie is an 8/10.