Jack Genero was a vintage porn director who liked to create the semblance of a real movie, as witness such early efforts as CLIMAX (a goodie) and SAN FRANCISCO BALL (a clunker).
He returns to the kidnapping theme of SAN FRANCISCO BALL with FOXY LADY, an early starring vehicle for John Leslie. This is an unusual assignment in that Leslie is not among all-stars but rather unknowns.
Pic opens with a well-shot hang gliding sequence, introducing Leslie as a gambler whose buxom wife Ginger (one-shot Valerie Driskell) complains about his finances.
She is kidnapped, with a ransom note sent to Leslie asking for $10,000, which he doesn't have. His sister-in-law shows up (played by attractive Sandy Pinney) and devises a plan: they will rob a bank together to raise the money needed to save Ginger.
Much of the action takes place on a nearby island where Ginger has been brought, and she's abused not only by the kidnappers (including one-shot Asian beauty Kim Yoko) but also by a selfish black dude (familiar '70s porn actor Pharoah Amos), who falsely promises her: "get me off and I'll get you off" {the island}.
As in his earlier work, Genero stages a major showdown finale, which is clumsy and unconvincing.
So the bare bones of an interesting roughie are squandered on a succession of typical XXX scenes, helped a bit by Pinney's beauty and reliable acting by Leslie. Driscoll is mainly in the spotlight, but evidently headed for the hills after this enthusiastic stab at porn stardom.
Though the location footage, credited to d.p. Jack Bristol, is well-lensed, film has a particularly cheap interior set for a lengthy threesome scene where a pretty girl (Kristine Heller, best-known actress in the picture) takes Leslie upstairs after picking him up in a bar, leading to anal sex.
He returns to the kidnapping theme of SAN FRANCISCO BALL with FOXY LADY, an early starring vehicle for John Leslie. This is an unusual assignment in that Leslie is not among all-stars but rather unknowns.
Pic opens with a well-shot hang gliding sequence, introducing Leslie as a gambler whose buxom wife Ginger (one-shot Valerie Driskell) complains about his finances.
She is kidnapped, with a ransom note sent to Leslie asking for $10,000, which he doesn't have. His sister-in-law shows up (played by attractive Sandy Pinney) and devises a plan: they will rob a bank together to raise the money needed to save Ginger.
Much of the action takes place on a nearby island where Ginger has been brought, and she's abused not only by the kidnappers (including one-shot Asian beauty Kim Yoko) but also by a selfish black dude (familiar '70s porn actor Pharoah Amos), who falsely promises her: "get me off and I'll get you off" {the island}.
As in his earlier work, Genero stages a major showdown finale, which is clumsy and unconvincing.
So the bare bones of an interesting roughie are squandered on a succession of typical XXX scenes, helped a bit by Pinney's beauty and reliable acting by Leslie. Driscoll is mainly in the spotlight, but evidently headed for the hills after this enthusiastic stab at porn stardom.
Though the location footage, credited to d.p. Jack Bristol, is well-lensed, film has a particularly cheap interior set for a lengthy threesome scene where a pretty girl (Kristine Heller, best-known actress in the picture) takes Leslie upstairs after picking him up in a bar, leading to anal sex.