With the opening credits, I knew that this was going to be something different. A "two faced" man/woman dances and sings in a cabaret entertaining the crowd in fine fashion. We then have naked, exercising Nazis showing off their Arian "superiorities" in unfortunately, flaccid form. So begins our film. This film finds a Grande Dame in charge of a Cabaret at the beginning of WWII. Miss Kitty is forced to turn her club into a Nazi controlled brothel where women are trained to handle most any type of customer. Unbeknownst to her, The Nazis have planted hidden microphones in the rooms to listen in to every secret/conspiracy that their German Officers might be hiding. The kicker comes in when she learns of this and decides to turn the tables on our Nazi "baddies" recording everything.This a very well made film. The sets are first class, the actors are incredibly well dressed and the makeup is applied both on and off camera with splendid effect. Yes, the acting's a bit over the top, but that's always the "norm" with Italian productions. That's just something that you'll never get away from in the "boot country" (and take it from someone who lived there for 7 years). One could easily compare Fosse's "Cabaret"(1972) and "Salon Kitty", due to their period and musical numbers alone, but Brass employed some much needed nudity for his particular feature (and we certainly thank him for it).All in all, some excellent Nazisploitation fun with good production values. We have a generous quantity of naked women simultaneously "Sieg Heiling", pigs being slaughtered, a naked midget hunchback about to perform coitus (on one of our trainees) and a legless chap about to get lucky with yet another trainee. Damn fun stuff, indeed. Single "X" mind you, but fun all the same.I highly recommend this one, but be sure to have some time as the uncut version goes on for some 2 hours and 15 minutes, credits included.Charlie.

In WW2 Germany, Gestapo officers spy on their own soldiers at a brothel to make sure they don't turn against the Fuhrer. Thulin and Berger are reunited after playing mother and son in "The Damned," cementing their places in the Decadence Hall of Shame. Thulin vamps through three songs, which is at least three too many. As one would expect from Brass, there is ample display of flesh. Savoy is an idealistic young woman with naked ambitions (well, naked anyway). The film is trashy fun as long as it is focusing on the salacious activities of those naughty Nazis. However, Brass decides to throw in some messages about love and war, making the film drag somewhat and go on too long.

What i like in tinto brass's films is the nudity of beautiful women.CHEEKY,ALL LADIES DO IT,PAPRIKA and FRIVOLOUS LOLA, just to name a few,really delivers the merchandise.But not every film by brass delivers the scenes lovers of the female form crave for.Sometimes the nude scenes are too few and the actress's look is pretty dull like in THE KEY,MIRANDA or many of the TINTO BRASS PRESENTS segments.Other times, there is too much bloody violence like in CALIGULA or in SALON KITTY.And sometimes Brass puts too much male genitalia or gay characters in his films. (Zero gay characters is pretty much what would be acceptable to me!)PAPRIKA had a strong storyline and plenty of female nudity but the scene where a younger man has sexual intercourse with an older man made me want to throw up!Some of the excessive violence in SALON KITTY consists of slaughtered pigs,a scene featuring a woman who died of a self induced abortion and a blood stained mirror after the shooting of a man.The producers thought the blood stained mirror was so beautiful that this scene is even featured in the trailer!Normally my thoughts are that male genitalia should only be featured when a man is about to make love to a woman.Here there's the dancing men with women 's dress lifting their skirts and a dildo made of bread. None of this was appealing to me.The main female star in this film is Theresa ann savoy. She's pretty and steals every scene in which she's in. I also liked the scene where about 15 women are standing naked side by side after getting undressed. I don't remember seeing a shot like this in any other films & i've seem a lot!When you strip this overlong film of it's gore, it's cabaret singing & dance scenes,it's ugly people having sex scenes and concentrate on the Theresa ann savoy story which involves the killing of a man she loved and her plan for revenge, there 's a good story here somewhere for sure but you've got to watch a lot of unappealing stuff to get there!

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.