Review of Morituri

. . . MORITURI depicts "Esther" as one of World War Two's most sizzling Femme Fatales. Many "blue movies" feature INSATIABLE actresses in leading roles, but they often bog down amid excessive bodily fluids, repetitive close-ups, and implausible body positioning. On the other hand, MORITURI (Italian for "Hot to Trot") uses Esther with more restraint. She doesn't enter the picture until nearly an hour into this story, and she exits prematurely. But what a back tale she has! Esther recounts how she entertained the Gestapo by trying to get it on with her younger brother. After slaying her sibling for failure to perform up to expectations, Esther says that she accommodated 17 G-Men to keep her mind off her parents being rendered into soap. An equal opportunity seductress, Esther then rigs a vote of Allied P.O.W.s by harboring the entire electorate (15 guys altogether) in their communal voting booth. Suspecting that she is laying both sides of the gangway, Captain Kruse is prepared when Esther attempts to mount him in the middle of a mutiny. He dispatches her before she can ride like a Valkyrie, with a single shot (about 17 less than the French wasted on Mata Hari).