YNOT – Unavailable for two decades, Cecil Howard’s classic adult film Foxtrot (Command Video, 1982) will emerge from the vault and join the video-on-demand collection at HotMovies.com June 20.
Lensed during porn’s Golden Age, much of producer-director Howard’s acclaimed work disappeared into private collections some time ago. Foxtrot surfaced on HotMovies for a limited engagement during January 2011 and proved so popular with viewers that Howard and HotMovies negotiated a deal to make the film available permanently.
“Foxtrot was an enormous hit when it first came out and its first time around on VOD,” Howard said. “But I know a lot of people never got a chance to view it. I thought it was time to put it out there for all time for all to see. Plus, it’s great to expand what has become a tremendous partnership with the people at HotMovies.”
Screenwriter Anne Randall’s intelligent screenplay is loaded with payoffs preceding the countdown to the New Year. The 77-minute flick features 10 stars of the day — including AVN Hall of Famer Samantha Fox, Sharon Mitchell, Vanessa del Rio, Veronica Hart, Tiffany Clark and Ron Jeremy — cosseted in 13 explicit acts of love. In a 1983 review published in High Society magazine, Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano called Foxtrot “far and away the best adult film of the year.” The movie snagged 10 adult industry awards, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Actor.
“I’m stoked we have the opportunity to offer this classic full time,” said HotMovies Director of Business Development James Cybert. “It’s one of the true strengths of our site that we are the only place to find Howard’s work, which influenced the way porn is made to this day — at least, the good porn.”
Howard said he plans to unearth more lost classics for HotMovies in the near future. The next month-long limited release, October Silk, will heat up the site as the sun heats the skies this summer. Produced by Howard with direction by the late, great Henri Pachard, October Silk is the original sequel to the Command classic Babylon Pink, which also spawned extremely successful sequels in Babylon Pink 2 and Babylon Pink 3, which also are available in VOD format on HotMovies.
HotMovies’ affiliate program, MovieDollars, pays 20-percent recurring revenue share and offers promotional materials including free-hosted galleries and white-label websites.
