The Cut-Throats (1969)

A campy World War II flick featuring mime sex, Nazi toe sucking, and Uschi Digard.

The title screen (and music) is insane.  This isn't a Western - this is a WWII movie... what in the ever-lovin' fuck?  Was this an inside joke?

The movie begins in war ravaged Germany.  Sandy Carey (a VZ1 fave) is a poor woman selling paintings recovered from the rubble.

A Nazi (Michael Pataki!) proceeds to rape the poor woman.  (It just wouldn't be right to have Sandy Carey in a film and not get the full frontal.)

The assault is interrupted by an American soldier who kills Michael Pataki; the girl grabs her painting and gets away.

That hero soldier is part of an elite fighting group, much like the Dirty Dozen (but I guess this is just he Dirty Half-Dozen), hand selected for a special mission.

WWII is expected to last two more months; but these guys can make it end tonight if things go according to plan.  They are to break into a German country club currently inhabited by Nazi generals.  Within that country club are the top secret battle plans they need to steal.

 At the country club we find a fat German general getting a massage in a steam room.

The girl then proceeds to suck his toes. Gross!  The actress is played by Tracy Handfuss.  This was her first role, and I hope they paid her a million dollars.

She then sticks his toe up her va-jay-jay.  Tracy Handfuss appeared in A Clockwork Blue, but I don't remember her in that.  Her last role was in The Beauties and the Beast, where she played a girl in a rowboat (I don't remember her in that either).  It seems she was never able to get beyond the bit parts; a shame, because she's a knockout... and obviously willing to do whatever the role requires, even sucking fat Nazi toes.

The Dirty Half-Dozen storm the country club.  They kill all the guards; however, high ranking officers had already left earlier that day.

 Still at the country club are a half-dozen brothel girls - the madame (Janice Douglas) and her whores.

 The commandos search the premises, looking for the battle plans.

After a long day of killing Nazis and scavenging for battle pans, the boys relax and enjoy some entertainment provided by the madame's girls.

The girls weary sexy outfits and put on quite a show. 

Oh fuck.  One of the girls (Barbara Lane) plays a mime which creeped me out.

 Would you believe one of the soldiers goes to bed with her?

I'm not sure how I feel about this.  It's simultaneously disturbing and erotic.... a little more of the former.

Another soldier goes back with the steam room girl.  If he knew that a sweaty Nazi toe had recently been up in there, I wonder if he'd reconsider.

 The girl steals a gun from his uniform and escapes.

Sgt. Joseph Tackney (Jay Scott) has a girl in his room (Inga Maria), but he's not interested.  He's writing love letters to his sweetheart back home.

Another girl (Heather Belbin) - the one who wore the top hat - services another of the Dirty Half-Dozen. This girl is a zealous Nazi and can only have sex with the phonograph playing patriotic tunes of the Third Reich.  This was Heather Belbin's only IMDb credit.

We find that the commander of the Dirty Half-Dozen, Captain Franklin B. Kohler III (E.J. Walsh) isn't the fine upstanding American we thought he was.  He threatens the madame with death unless she shows him where the Nazi treasure is hidden.

Captain Kohler is shown the precious stash in the basement.

Cut to the Germans: The general (William Guhl) who we saw get a massage earlier pours himself a drink. His secretary is played by none other than Uschi Digard.

 Uschi and one of the General's men gets drunk; Uschi predictably gets naked.

The movie's climactic battle: The Germans return to the country club.  They arm the whores and do battle against the Dirty Half-Dozen.

Sgt. Joseph Tackney comes upon his girl (Inga Maria) taking a shower.  He has a sweetheart back home, but fuck it - the two have sex while the battle rages on outsides.

Several of the girls and soldiers are killed.  The battle choreography is fairly weak, but not awful either.

The girl who played the mime kills the soldier she had sex with earlier... but he has the last laugh, letting a grenade slip from his hand, killing them both.

 Inside, the madame has a plan - she tapes a pistol under her nurse uniform.

Captain Kohler and the German general meet head-to-head.  Both shoot each other - the general dies, but the captain is able to escape with the treasure in a truck driven by the madame.

But the captain's wound proves lethal.  As he lays dying, he tells Sgt. Tackney that there is treasure in the back of the truck.

 The madame pulls the gun she'd hidden under her dress and aims it at Tackney!

 But Tackney's girl, Inga Maria, is right behind her with a shotgun.  She's apparently fallen for the sergeant and turned against her countrymen.

Tackney and his girl find the treasure and escape to safety.  THE END

Other than the odd Western title screen and theme song (which makes no fucking sense whatsoever), this was a well made sexploitation romp.  It had action, plenty of energy, and hot German mamas - an embarrassment of riches.

In the negative column is the fact that almost nobody talks in this film; the lines for this entire picture could fit on a single page.  What dialog there is is pretty stilted and poorly acted, so maybe it's a good thing that it was kept to a minimum.

The unsung hero of the picture is actress Tracy Handfuss who provides the most onscreen nudity; a cameo from Uschi was a nice treat, and Sandy Carey is always a welcome appearance. Perhaps the Dirty Half-Dozen could have been developed more, with more unique characters.  As it was, these US soldiers were utterly bland and forgettable. Thankfully, the film was not - providing enough oddity (mime sex and Nazi toe sucking) and risque tomfoolery to keep things interesting from beginning to end.

★★★★★★☆☆☆☆