The Sin Syndicate

Make It Before the Tape Goes

Quiet on the hardcore set, The Sin Syndicate (writer/researcher Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott) are avoiding vice cops and hitting the high seas as we sail along with director/actor Alain Patrick and executive producer Bob Chinn for their sexploitation passion project, “Blue Money”
The meta movie from 1972 from dirty film partners Patrick and Chinn features beautiful Bohemian star Barbara Mills as a young mother and the wife of a philandering producer of illegal pornography. Join us we discuss the too short life and career of Mills, as well as the precarious legality of adults only film distribution in America during the early 1970s, in "Make It Before the Tape Goes."
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Timestamps:(00:00:35) Intro(00:01:30) Updates(00:11:00) Blue Money(00:17:00) Synopsis  (00:27:30) Alain Patrick(00:30:14) Barbara Mills(00:45:00) Suzanne Fields(00:50:00) Sandy Dempsy(00:58:47) Art Imitate Life?(01:10:16) Final Thoughts

Marked for Beauty

Check the hotel rooftops for shooters, The Sin Syndicate (writer/researcher Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott) are dodging bullets and finding pleasure in pain as they ride along with Barry Mahon’s Red Scare sexploitation, “Run Swinger Run!”
The 1967 film features frequent Sarno starlet Gretchen Rudolph as the nude-in-flight from a nefarious call-girl organization selling guns to Communists and flesh to visiting dignitaries. Join us as we dissect the Mahon of it all while celebrating the life and career of Gretchen Rudolph in “Marked by Beauty.”
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Timestamps:(00:00:35) Intro(00:01:08) Updates(00:08:45) Synopsis(00:09:30) Producers(00:14:00) Barry Mahon (00:26:00) Let's Play a Game(00:28:40) A Fantastic Story(00:50:35) Gretchen Rudolph(01:02:13) The California Films(01:20:31) Final Thoughts

The War of the Roses

Prepare the water hose, The Sin Syndicate, writer/researcher Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott, are opening the valve on William L. Rose, the mysterious director of the 1965 roughie, “Rent-A-Girl.” Best known for directing the gothic-giallo “The Girl in Room 2A," Rose got his start writing and directing sexploitation, but maybe not all the films he's credited with. Join us as we look at his directorial debut, and how another character, Werner Rose, fits into this surprisingly complicated saga.
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The Short Ends: More Seeds

The Sin Syndicate presents The Short Ends, the first in a series of bite-sized bonus episodes. This minisode includes further discussion from Episode 4 around the cast of Andy Milligan's "Seeds" as well as conversation about his rarely seen Caffe Cino-shot film, "Compass Rose." 
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A Fate Worse than Death

The Sin Syndicate, film critic Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott, are joined by Andy Milligan obsessive, Alex DiSanto, for a discussion about Andy’s lost 1960s sexploitation films before a deep dive into the production of 1968’s messy family masterpiece, “Seeds.”
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Timestamps:(00:01:24) Corrections(00:04:41) Alex DiSanto Intro(00:08:05) The Promiscuous Sex(00:15:04) The Naked Witch(00:25:32) The Degenerates(00:33:42) Depraved!(00:47:03) The Filthy Five(01:06:22) Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me(01:15:41) Tricks of the Trade(01:32:15) Gutter Trash(01:40:28) Seeds
 

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The Sin Syndicate, film critic Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott, try to uncover the invisible mysteries of Doris Wishman photographer C. Davis Smith's 1966 toe-sucking, kung fu fighting, milk modeling, sexy spy thriller, “The Girl from S.I.N.” 
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The Story of the Zero Girls

The Sin Syndicate, film critic Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott, take a look at their namesake, Michael Findlay's 1965 sex trafficking noir, "The Sin Syndicate."
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Introduction to The Syndicate

An introduction to The Sin Syndicate, the ONLY podcast dedicated to 1960s sexploitation, hosted by film critic Gentry Austin and adult film historian Casey Scott. In this episode we briefly introduce ourselves, attempt to define sexploitation, and discuss our overall aim with this project. 
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