Nazi Germany, late-1930s. Germany is gearing up for war and one of their projects is to set up a brothel, where military officers and politicians can relax. SS Untergruppenfuhrer Helmut Wallenberg is tasked with the role of recruiting the girls - they must all be ardent National Socialists - and setting everything up. He views the brothel as a means to spy on senior officers and politicians, especially in order to weed out any traitors, and bugs the rooms. This has tragic consequences for one of the girls.

Better than I expected. I was expecting a no-discernible-plot, heaps-of-gratuitous-nudity exploitation-type movie and this was better than that. There is a fair degree of nudity but it is fairly tame. Not very exploitative at all, especially compared to some movies in that genre.

Plot is decent - it is coherent and not too holey. Just that it has a plot was a good start! Some engagement with the characters too.

However, there are still many reminders that this is a B-movie. Continuity leaves a lot to be desired: eg a man's scar shifts from one side of his back to the other in one scene! Props are pretty basic: eg this movie contains the worst, most asymmetrical, swastika flag yet seen.

Performances are largely a bit hammy, but not too bad. The SS 2nd in command is ridiculously badly played though - the actor shouts every line at the top of his lungs! Very over-the-top.

The Nazis ... they were quite the crazy people, weren't they? Kind of rhetorical question. Now add Tinto Brass to the mix and you get even crazier! And as nude and depraved as possible. The uncut version of this is dirty, mental and almost too much. For some at least it will be. They will be "missing" out on an interesting backstory that holds the whole deranged party together.

Now this is based on something that was actually going on back then and I'm not referring to Orgies (though I wouldn't be surprised if they had them too),but the surveillence going on. People were watched, a lot of paranoia and quite the difficult time to live in. Now imagine being a prostitute who had to pleasure the crazy people/Nazis ... so as you can imagine, when this was released, quite the uproar came about. The man behind Caligula (Romans seem to have loved Orgies too, who'd have figured?),does the Nazis ... well the Nazis do the ... you get the picture.

Having said that, there is an interesting overall idea to this, but it is a bit too convoluted and too stuffed (no pun intended). As an episodic movie it probably would have worked even better. As it is, it was (and is) still quite succesful ... for better or worse.

Made a few years before the even more notorious 'Caligula', this 'Salon Kitty' focuses on a more recent era of despicable history. Set in the earliest years of Hitler's reign and the start of WWII, it handles about power-mad Nazi officer Wallenberg who puts Madame Kitty's luxurious brothel in service of the 'Third Reich' and recruits a bunch of patriotic beauties to serve as prostitutes. But, instead of doing this as a favor for his fellow Nazi-superiors, he blackmails them with the information he gets by having the chambers bugged. This film is infamous and hated because of its topic (I always heard it was as close to propaganda as you can get) and the explicitly of the sexual content. Granted, Tinto Brass does have a bizarre obsession for showing as much genitalia (female AND male) as possible but aside from a few sequences featuring deformed midgets, it's never too sickening. The dullness is what bothered me here! The film is overlong and I wasn't really anticipating all those Cabaret sequences. The screenplay too often handles about pointless intrigues and the plot only gets REALLY interesting around the last half hour when ***SPOILERS*** the young Margherita unravels Wallenberg's vile actions and conspiracies against him. *** End Spoilers ***. Thank God for Theresa Ann Savoy! This stunning beauty (who also played a remarkable role in 'Caligula') makes this exploitation experience ten times more bearable because of her natural charisma and ravishing body. If it weren't for her, I'm sure the ratings for this film would be even lower.