Kinkiest scene from the brothel has a submissive guy put into bondage, his hands and ankles tightly tied with twine, as Jane Tsentas/Louise abuses him physically and verbally. Ziehm carefully shows the slow removal of the dildo as they finish to prove to the fans the great lengths to which his performers went in order to stimulate their audience. In one, a very young john with a big dick masturbates in his chair, as he orders two hookers to have lesbian sex with a noisy vibrator and then a huge double-dong dildo. A couple of kinky scenes liven up the action. The other gals are well-chosen and enthusiastic, though their direct-sound "porn-speak" ad lib dialog is terrible. The brothel madam is well-played (in a non-sex assignment) by mainstream actress Mady Maguire, part of soft porn history in the title role of the 1970 classic NORMA. Running gag is that the chief is repeatedly horrified at what he sees, but is masturbating as he watches. The chief and our intrepid duo watch a tiny TV monitor back in the office, looking at one sex scene after another. With comically sped-up slapstick footage, Smutley plants tiny video cameras in all the rooms, cuing the rest of the film resembling a loop carrier. The team is next sent by their buffoonish police chief to a brothel on Sunset Blvd. No matter, the gals employed, notably McDowell and Ziehm's FLESH GORDON star to be Nora Wieternik are quite attractive and hold their own in medium and master shots. The extreme closeups, often grotesquely so, that Ziehm pioneered in MONA are on display here, and the print used by Alpha Blue Archives for DVD transfer has deteriorated to the extent that these "in your face" shots are no longer cause for arousal but look like something from an abattoir. Film's only good gag occurs at the end of her segment, when Thursday, his voice straining in the throes of passion during his money shot, flashes his badge and tells her: "You're busted!". Ironically, per an IMDb trivia posting, her sex scene in CITY OF SIN was later cannibalized and issued as a stand-alone stag loop. It turns out to be Linda McDowell, one of the premiere stag loop stars (still revered today), and thankfully preserved in feature film doing her stuff here. Thursday picks up a leggy blonde on the street and she takes him to her apartment. With Nixon and Reagan photos adorning their office, they set out on an undercover mission per Thursday's plan "to subject ourselves to this vice and corruption" so they can catch the perpetrators. Thursday and his partner Smutley are assigned in 1971 to crack down on prostitution in the fair city. The familiar "Dragnet" theme song introduces our story, as a narrator intones with stats: 7,000,000 people in L.A., 30,000 of them are prostitutes, 1,500,000 are homosexuals and 2,000,000 are deviants. use this merely as a gimmick on which to mount typically wall-to-wall mindless sex action of 1-Day-Wonder low quality. Perhaps merely a footnote, CITY OF SIN is perhaps the earliest XXX film to spoof popular TV shows, a format which has yielded many thousands of movies & videos since, and currently dominates the Adult industry. But of course his FLESH GORDON, soft-core to be sure, cements his place in porn history. Howard Ziehm directed the breakthrough hardcore porn film MONA in 1970, but soon slacked off into rather mediocre efforts like this "Dragnet" parody.
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