Love Camp 7 (1969)

Director:

Lee Frost

Writer:

Bob Cresse (original story)
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Release Date:

4 October 1969 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller | War

Tagline:

A Place of Total Despair. All the youthful beauty of Europe enslaved for the pleasure of the 3rd Reich.

Plot:

Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.

Plot Keywords:

Undercover | Scientist | Nazi | Prison Camp | Fascism

Cast

Bob Cresse	...	Commandant
Maria Lease	...	WAC Lt. Linda Harman
Kathy Williams	...	WAC Lt. Grace Freeman
Bruce Kimball	...	Sgt. Klaus Müller (as Bruce Kemp)
John Alderman	...	Capt. Robert Calais
Rodger Steel
Rod Wilmoth		(as Rod Wilmouth)
David F. Friedman	...	Col. Max Kemp (as Dave Friedman)
Patricia Roddy
John Riazzi
Carolyn Appleby
Louis Mazzarella
Ken Sims
Larry Martinelli
Shelly Martin
Natasha Steel
Robert Baker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jo Ellen
Phil Poth	...	Fire Hose Man (uncredited)

Directed by
Lee Frost		(as R.L. Frost)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Wes Bishop		writer (uncredited)
Bob Cresse		original story (as R.W. Cresse)

Produced by
Wes Bishop	....	associate producer (as Wesdon Bishop)
Bob Cresse	....	producer (as R.W. Cresse)

Cinematography by
Lee Frost		(as R.L. Frost)

Production Management
Paul Wilmoth	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Stefan Zema	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Sam Kopetzky	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Harry Woolman	....	special effects (as Harry Wolman)

Other crew
Chuck Fisher	....	production assistant
Steve Offers	....	title designer

Distributors

• Olympic International Films (1969) (USA) (theatrical)
• Cinépix Film Properties (CFP) (1972) (Canada) (theatrical) (cut version)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (2003) (USA) (video) (DVD-R)
• Siren Visual Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
• Market Video (????) (UK) (VHS)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (????) (USA) (VHS)

Other Companies

• Hollywood Military Hobbies  authentic uniforms and equipment furnished by
• Olympic International Films  presents (as Olympic International)
• R.L.F. Enterprises  editing

Also Known As:

Nazi Love Camp 7 (Australia) (video box title)
Auschwitz: Gynaikeio stratopedo 119 (Greece) (reissue title) [el]
Camp 7: lager femminile (Italy) [it]
Erikoisleiri no 7 (Finland) [fi]
Erotiko stratopedo tou G' Reich (Greece) [el]

Runtime:

96 min | Australia:94 min (cut)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:(Banned) | UK:R (2002) | Australia:R (re-rating: 1974) (cut) | Australia:Refused Classification (original rating: 1974) | New Zealand:(Banned) (2005) | Finland:K-18

Trivia:

The film was one of the original 74 video nasties in the UK and consequently banned. When the film was eventually submitted to the BBFC in 2002 it was refused a certificate with the statement as follows - 'The BBFC has refused a classification to the video of LOVE CAMP 7. LOVE CAMP 7 is an exploitation film set in a Nazi 'love camp' during the second World War. The film contains numerous scenes of women prisoners being abused, tortured and humiliated by their Nazi captors. Indeed the whole purpose of the work is to invite male viewers to relish the spectacle of naked women being humiliated for their titillation. LOVE CAMP 7 contains both eroticised depictions of sexual violence and repeated association of sex with restraint, pain, and humiliation. These sequences were in clear contravention of the Board's strict policy on depictions of sexual violence, which prohibits scenes that eroticise or endorse sexual assault. The possibility of cuts was considered. However, because the sexual violence runs throughout the work cutting was not considered to be a viable option'.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in American Sexual Revolution (1971)

The Nazi's; the most boring extreme group ever?

Well, first of all; I'd like to say how relieved I am to have finally seen this film. I watched this, and the other three boring Nazisploitation films on the Video Nasty list, purely because I wanted to see every film on it - and now that I've got through these four films, I know I don't have to suffer Nazisploitation ever again! Love Camp 7 was made before most other genre attempts, but that doesn't make it any less dull. The cinematography is less sharp; but aside from that, it's pretty much business as usual. The plot follows two female army agents that go undercover at a Nazi concentration camp in order to extract some information from a scientist. However, their escape plan goes wrong and they end up stuck behind enemy lines! As you might expect from a film called 'Love Camp', there's plenty of sex on display, but it's never particularly filthy, however. The film was banned back in the eighties; and I have to wonder why. All I can think is that it was simply thrown in with the rest of the Nazi films by a group of censors who probably didn't even watch most of the films they banned. The plotting is very dull indeed, and as you might expect; the film is very boring. Overall, Love Camp 7 is not recommended.