In 1975, Legendary exploitation producer David Friedman and director Don Edmonds gave us the taboo-busting cult classic Ilsa, She-wolf Of The SS about a sexy but evil Nazi Commandante who gleefully performs sadistic experiments on (mostly female) prisoners and has a nasty penchant for castrating potential lovers who fail to satisfy her. Ilsa was based in part on an actual person, Ilse Koch, who tortured death camp prisoners and collected skin from those who had tattoos. Dyanne Thorne was a busty red-headed 43 year old former Vegas showgirl who had toiled around in the low-budget sexploitation biz since the mid ‘60s with roles in films like Sin In The Suburbs (1964) and The Swinging Barmaids (1973). Working as a chauffer driver at the time, Thorne was tapped to portray Ilsa and the rest is exploitation cinema history (reportedly Phyllis Davis of Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and the “Vega$” TV show was Friedman...
- 8/12/2009
- by Tom
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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