X-Rated

October, 1978

Piracy, or stealing from the classics to inject some quality into the standardized hump and grind of hard-core films, has become S.O.P. for porno peddlers. Writer-producer-director Kenneth Schwartz openly acknowledges that Fiona on Fire owes a lot to Laura, the glossy 1944 thriller with Gene Tierney as the mysterious beauty, supposedly murdered, who nevertheless exuded such allure that detective Dana Andrews fell hopelessly in love with her. Fiona has pretty much the same plot: a missing girl; a...