Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Don Edmonds

Writer:

Langston Stafford (writer)

Release Date:

March 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Horror

Tagline:

Ilsa's back! ...More fierce than ever! With brutal fury she enslaved an empire and shocked the world!

Plot:

Finding a new employer, and looking not a day older since the end of World War II, Ilsa works for an...

Plot Keywords:

Wrath | Dead Woman Carried | Attraction | Starvation | Degradation

Cast

Dyanne Thorne	...	Ilsa
Max Thayer	...	Comander Adam, US Navy (as Michael Thayer)
Jerry Delony	...	El Sharif (as Victor Alexander)
Uschi Digard	...	Inga Lindström (as Elke Von)
Colleen Brennan	...	Nora Edward (as Sharon Kelly)
Haji	...	Alina Cordova (as Haji Cat)
Tanya Boyd	...	Satin
Marilyn Joi	...	Velvet
Su Ling	...	Katsina
Richard Kennedy	...	Kaiser (as Wolfgang Roehm)
George 'Buck' Flower	...	Beggar
Dea Martensen
Ivan Roars
S. Stearns
Bobby Woods	...	Prince Salim

Also Known As:

Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (USA) (promotional title)
Ilsa, Keeper of the Oil Sheik's Harem

Runtime:

Australia:87 min | Canada:85 min | USA:85 min | USA:93 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | Norway:18 (2007) | West Germany:18 | Australia:R | Denmark:16 | USA:R | Spain:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Mount Everest Enterprises Ltd.

Trivia:

The producers kept this film tamer than the first one so they could secure an "R" rating and bring in a larger audience.

Goofs:

Continuity: Theoretically, this film could not have been made, as the main character Ilsa dies at the end of the first film Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975). But (according to the DVD commentary) the producers thought that nobody would remember so the film was made anyway.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Kaddish (1984)

Second Installment in the "Infamous" Ilsa Series

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