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While the first half of Ilsa, Tigress of Siberia is purely set-up meant to connect the film to the earlier installments, the second half of this film is great Canadian fun with a spy/action flair. LaFleur, who indulged his audience with recognizable Montreal locations and gratuitous Canadian references in Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck, once again makes Ilsa a proudly Canadian film that must have pleased Montreal film-goers at the time.
Despite claims that this film is the least interesting in the series, Ilsa, Tigress of Siberia isn't totally exempt from exploitation film craziness. Some of the more notable occurrences include a great scene with a gasoline-filled waterbed, and a killer snow plow that does away with an embassy spy. Also fun is the way the film degenerates into complete anarchy for the climax. Oddly enough, this is also the only film in which Ilsa doesn't die at end, yet it is also the final Ilsa film ever made.
ILSA TIGRESS OF SIBERIA was not as successful as the other Ilsa films and, even though she’s still alive at the end, stranded in the snowy wasteland, there would be no more Ilsa movies. Cinepix did not market the film well and the U.S. one-sheet (which titles the film simply THE TIGRESS) featured a top-heavy blonde model that wasn’t even Dyanne Thorne! It had a brief VHS release in the early 80’s but is now hard to find and I don’t know why Anchor Bay did not include it in it’s aforementioned Ilsa box set (highly recommended, all three DVD’s feature commentaries with Ms Thorne). For more information on the Ilsa movies, I recommend the book “The Ilsa Chronicles” by Darrin Venticinque and Tristan Thompson published by Midnight Media. ILSA TIGRESS OF SIBERIA is available on-line as a PAL import disc and I highly recommend seeking it out… or else Ilsa will punish you!
Siberia 1953: Ilsa is now working in a Gulag prison camp. Her mission is to #x22;retrain the minds6#x22; of those who dono#x27;t agree with the communists. But prisoner, Yakurin, is more difficult than the others. Ilsa is not one to give up, though. i#x22;We will break you_#x22;, she promises. However, when Stalin dies, the camp closes down, Ilsa and the guards kill the prisoners and leave. But Yakurin survives. In 1977, Yakurin is the coach of the Soviet boxing team, and on a visit in Montreal, he lets the boxers visit a brothel. The owner of the brothel isIlsa and her colleagues from the Gulag camp. Ilsa sees Yakurin and wants a second chance to finish a#x22;breakinge#x22; him, and Yakurin wants to get revenge... Written by Calle
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