Tell Them 'Johnny Wadd' is Here
By Tod Hunter
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
If you are a porn fan — and if you aren't, what the hell are you doing here? — and you're too young to have seen John C. Holmes in a porn movie, you're in luck. Classic-film company VCX has announced plans for a DVD release of the 1973 film
Johnny Wadd, starring John C. Holmes and directed by Bob Chinn.
The film was the first of a series of features starring Holmes as detective Johnny Wadd.
The print of the film was discovered by Chinn in storage, Chinn said at a signing of a biography of Holmes last week. The print was the first to be received from the processing lab, and had been projected only once.
"The print was in great shape anyway, but we wet-gated it," VCX president Dave Sutton told XFANZ, referring to a process used to preserve old film while it's being transferred. "The transfer is awesome, and the colors just pop. It looks like it's just been filmed."
"Holmes is at his absolute best — young and drug-free. Bob Chinn did a director's commentary and we shot an interview that gave an insight into early '70s shoot-and-scoot porn that's just phenomenal. It's a real time capsule."
Sutton also pointed out that VCX owns many of the movies Chinn spoke about in the interview, "and when he made reference to a certain scene, we can fade into that scene."
Johnny Wadd has never been released for home video, according to Sutton.
The DVD has a street date of September 23.
