title: Corruption (1983 film)
text: # Corruption (1983 film)
  
  Corruption is a 1983 American pornographic film written and directed by Roger Watkins under the pseudonym of Richard Mahler. The film, a loose adaptation of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, is about a group of shady businessmen seeking a mysterious briefcase which offers its owner untold power, on the condition that the owner renounce love.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Jamie Gillis as Williams
  * Michael Gaunt as Franklin
  * Tiffany Clark as Doreen
  * Milton Ingley as Frederick (as Michael Morrison)
  * George Payne as Alan
  * Samantha Fox as Woman at Desk
  * Tanya Lawson as Girl in Blue
  * Marilyn Gee as Girl in Red (as Mary Constantine)
  * Tish Ambrose as Girl in Black
  * Kelly Nichols as Felicia
  * Nicole Bernard as Dancer
  * Bobby Astyr as Larry
  * Alexis X as Lesbian #1
  * Sabrina Vale as Lesbian #2
  * Melissa Strong as S&M Girl
  * Vanessa del Rio as Erda
  
  ## Release
  
  The film was released in a Blu-ray + DVD combo pack by Vinegar Syndrome in 2016, along with the inclusion of Last House on Dead End Street, Watkins' non-pornographic debut feature, as a hidden feature.
  
  ## Reception
  
  The reception to the film has been mostly positive. Cinema Blue called the film a "thinking man's porn", stating that "This is something different: this may challenge and provoke you, but it won't bore you, that's for sure". Writing for Blu-ray.com, Brian Orndorf called the film "artfully made and slightly unnerving", and compared the film positively to the works of David Lynch.
  
  