Sin in the Suburbs (1964)

Drama /
6.1/10

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After discovering that her mother is involved in an adulterous affair, a pretty high school student seeks help from a neighbor. While their trusting bond grows into a deep relationship, a secret sex club for the area’s pleasure-seeking women is started. Soon, Mom discovers that her daughter is a member!—Stefan Nylen

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A Very Risqué Film for this Particular Era

After her husband leaves her and she is unable to pay the bills “Yvette Talman” (Dyanne Thorne) seduces a bill collector at the instigation of her live-in boyfriend “Roy Minton” (Richard Tatro) to settle the debt. It’s at this time that Roy gets an idea to increase their incomes many times over by taking advantage of the fact that the housewives in this particular suburb are extremely lonely and many of them are having affairs to resolve the situation. That being the case, he reasons that–for a certain price–he can introduce them to several different lovers at a discreet location and with certain safety features to protect their identities. Soon his plan becomes a complete success-at least for him. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it I will just say that this was a very risqué film for this particular era. I especially liked the manner in which Roy was cleverly depicted as the devil with his customers appearing as his followers. Likewise, although Dyanne Thorne was unrecognizable to me I thought there were a couple of fairly pretty actresses involved with Marla Ellis (as “Lisa Francis”) standing out among them. On the other hand, I found the music–which played incessantly throughout the film-to be quite annoying. But overall I thought that this was a pretty good sexploitation film for the particular time-period and I rate it as slightly above average.

Fictional anthropology

With very limited resources at this disposal (the budget, shooting time, and acting talent were clearly in short supply), Sarno has combined a poor plot with an almost anthropological approach to encapsulating the fashions (hair and clothing) and the physical landscape of domestic split-level commuter suburbia (Long Island, perhaps?) in the mid-1960s.

The visual titillation is very minimal, alas, so this isn’t much of a sexploitation treat, but it does serve as almost a work of cinema verite, brought about by lack of resources for depicting anything beyond recording that physical milieu directly and accurately.

There is also some attempt as social commentary — everyone’s house is the same, and all the breadwinners (male, of course) take the 7:21 train into the city and return on the 6:35, while their wives stay home and try to fend off boredom). Too bad that Sarno wasn’t given enough resources to develop and capture a vision.

As it is, this is sort of a proto-indie movie, wherein the filmmaker was allowed some degree of personal expression within the straitjacket of the highly inhibited sexploitation genre of the era.

SiTS would have benefited from more flesh, and more fleshing out. A nice curiosity nevertheless.

Joe Sarno’s delightfully smart and racy 60’s soft-core classic

Extremely prolific and dependable low-budget soft-core independent filmmaker Joe Sarno scored one of his biggest hits with this hugely enjoyable and for the time quite daring sexploitation gem. A bunch of bored suburbanites join a secret sex cult in which all the members wear masks and robes ala Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.” When pretty teenager Kathy Lewis (nicely played by the fetching Alice Linville) discovers that her adulterous mother Geraldine (a fine performance by the lovely Audrey Campbell of “Olga” infamy) is having an affair, she falls under the seductive spell of sultry cult leader Yvette Talman (a perfectly commanding portrayal by the almighty Dyanne Thorne of “Ilsa” notoriety). Writer/director Sarno presents a bold and revealing expose of sleepy upper middle class small American town morality and hypocrisy, depicting the wild debauched stuff that goes on behind closed doors with considerable incisiveness and commendable restraint (the nudity is quite mild and the on-screen sex surprisingly chaste). Sarno also gives the interesting characters an unusual amount of depth and elicits mostly solid acting from a sturdy cast. W.B. Parker in particular excels with his deliciously smarmy turn as supremely sleazy and sinister sex cult ringleader Louis Muse; Parker’s rich, yet gravelly baritone voice and creepy screen presence suggest a seedy straight deviant version of Harvey Fierstein. Sam S. Fiedel’s groovy swinging jazz score further enhances the kinky fun. James J. Markos’ crisp black and white cinematography likewise does the trick. Although rather tame by today’s standards, this vintage 60’s blast still nonetheless overall qualifies as a real wicked treat.

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