FLESH OF THE LOTUS: A JOHNNY WADD NOVEL (2011)

“Trust me, Johnny.” These words are passionately delivered to private investigator Johnny Wadd who lives in a world where trust is hard to come by. It’s a world where lifelong friends take paths that twist in different directions but end up in the same bottomed out gorge of Los Angeles in 1972, a world of […]

BLONDE FIRE (1979)

As the 70’s began to draw to a close, so did filmmaker Bob Chinn’s relationship with Armand Atamian’s Freeway Films. Flush with projects from other companies (most notably, Harry Mohney and Gail Palmer’s Caribbean Films) Chinn had mostly been soldiering on with Freeway as a token of gratitude toward Atamian and also because of Chinn’s […]

THE JADE PUSSYCAT (1977)

Shifting the Johnny Wadd formula to expand outward as far as the budget would stretch it, Bob Chinn’s The Jade Pussycat sticks the private eye, now a much dandier figure with a swanky office, into a pre-made mystery adventure which, as an explicit riff on John Huston’s 1941 adaptation of Dashiell Hammet’s The Maltese Falcon, […]

LIQUID LIPS (1976)

The San Francisco-set third act of Bob Chinn’s original script to White Gold makes up the entirety of Liquid Lips, a true blue sequel to Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here but released into theaters first due to due to Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here’s more complicated set of post-production tasks which delayed its […]

TELL THEM JOHNNY WADD IS HERE (1976)

Bob Chinn’s Johnny Wadd series had come to an end when hardcore became a very risky business in vice-cop heavy L.A. and he had to hang back in the cut while biding his time producing softcore features. But after that had run its course and then dipping his toes back into the waters by helming […]

TROPIC OF PASSION (1971)

Tropic of Passion came about as director Bob Chinn and producing partner Alain Patrick were keen to get out of the then-hot L.A. area to avoid an all but certain bust by the vice squad as hardcore pornography was most definitely illegal to make at the time and the authorities had a particular hard-on for […]

THE BLONDE IN BLACK LACE (1971)

The smashing successes of the same year’s Johnny Wadd and Flesh of the Lotus necessitated another entry in the cycle of the titular private eye films so another production budget of $750 was set aside and another day on the calendar was blacked out to make everybody’s dreams come true. In the world of early, […]

FLESH OF THE LOTUS (1971)

While Bob Chinn’s Johnny Wadd did an outstanding job as a showcase for John Holmes’s hammer, there wasn’t much mystery nor adventure to be found within. Flesh of the Lotus, Chinn’s follow-up that, due to overwhelming demand by theater owners arrived in theaters a couple of months later, corrects this by opening up the space […]

JOHNNY WADD (1971)

When Jeannie Hamilton (Patti Lee) goes missing, her girlfriend (Andy Bellamy) calls on Johnny Wadd (John Holmes), a private detective who lives in a groovy beachside condo in Marina del Rey. After taking the case, the plot thickens when Sandy Hamilton (Sandy Dempsey) hires Wadd to drop the inquest into her missing sister. The first […]