''Love Camp 7'' is a 1969 American
women-in-prison Nazisploitation
Nazi exploitation (also Nazisploitation) is a subgenre of exploitation film and sexploitation film that involves Nazis committing sex crimes, often as camp or prison overseers during World War II. Most follow the women in prison formula, only r ...
B-movie
A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double featur ...
directed by
Lee Frost (credited as R.L. Frost) and written by Wes Bishop and Bob Cresse, the latter of whom also portrays a sadistic camp commandant.
Plot
Two American
Women's Army Corps officers volunteer to enter a
Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...
concentration camp undercover to gain information from, and possibly rescue, Martha Grossman, a Jewish scientist. The female inmates serve as sex slaves for German officers and are subjected to humiliating treatment, torture and rape.
When the two female agents learn that their target is being held in solitary detention, one of them arranges to be punished so that she can make contact. This leads to Lt. Harman being stripped and strung up by her wrists. The target uses her body to free Harman, and they attempt their escape. The escape plan ends in a climactic battle.
Cast
* Maria Lease as WAC Lt. Linda Harman
* Kathy Williams as WAC Lt. Grace Freeman
* Bob Cresse as Commandant
* Phil Poth
* John Aiderman as Capt. Robert Calais
* Carolyn Appleby as Blonde prisoner
*
Dave Friedman as Col. Max Kemp
* Bruce Kimball as Sgt. Klaus Müller
* Rod Wilmouth as Col. Karl Müller
* Rodger Steel as Gen. Erich von Hamer
* Natasha Steel
* Patricia Roddy
*
Lee Frost (''uncredited'') as Taxi driver
Reception
''Love Camp 7'' is regarded as a
cult classic because it represents the beginning of a fashion for
exploitation films about
women in prison in the 1970s, such as ''
Women in Cages'' (1971) and ''
The Big Bird Cage'' (1972), both of which made
Pam Grier a recognizable name in the genre. It is also the first in the
Nazi exploitation (or Nazisploitation) genre of concentration camp movies, including ''
Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS'' (1974)–which was produced by
David F. Friedman and led to several sequels with
Dyanne Thorne
Dyanne Thorne (October 14, 1936 – January 28, 2020) was an American actress, stage performer and vocalist. She was known for her stage work in Las Vegas and as the lead actress in the ''Ilsa'' film franchise which began with ''Ilsa, She Wolf ...
as the titular character–and the Italian ''
Nazi Love Camp 27
''Nazi Love Camp 27'' (Italian: ''La svastica nel ventre'') or ''The Swastika on the Belly'' is a 1977 Italian Nazi exploitation film by Italian director Mario Caiano and starring Finnish actress Sirpa Lane. In between brutal depictions of a brot ...
'' (1977) and ''
Last Orgy of the Third Reich
''Gestapo's Last Orgy'' ( it, 'L'ultima orgia del III Reich, lit=Last Orgy of the Third Reich) is an Italian Nazi exploitation film directed and co-written by Cesare Canevari and starring Daniela Poggi.
Plot
The film begins with a man named ...
'' (1977), the latter of which helped launch
Daniela Poggi's showbusiness career.
It was declined a video certificate by the
British Board of Film Classification
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, previously the British Board of Film Censors) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of f ...
in 2002 and by the
New Zealand Office of Film & Literature Classification. The film was then one of the 72
video nasties banned in the UK.
The BBFC upheld their rejection of the film when it was submitted for a certificate for streaming in 2020. It was originally banned in Australia, before passing several times in a modified version with an R18+ rating. It was finally passed uncut in 2005.
See also
*
List of American films of 1969
References
External links
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The Bad Movie Report: ''Love Camp 7''- sarcastic review of the plot
1969 films
1960s exploitation films
Nazi exploitation films
Women in prison films
Films directed by Lee Frost
Obscenity controversies in film
Films set in London
1960s prison films
1960s English-language films
American exploitation films
American prison films
American World War II films
1960s American films
Films originally rejected by the British Board of Film Classification
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