Daniel Holt + Richard West
Take a look at the trailer, which thankfully includes footage from the full-length version, not the 62 minute HIS Video hatchet job! The full version is 15 minutes longer, and may not actually exclude any of the sex, but has these great long stretches of Daniel Holt, driving around NYC in his cab in the early 1980’s. Locating the full version is worth that footage alone. If you’re a Holt fan, your in luck, he’s in all but one scene (and he’s watching the scene from across the airshaft as he whacks off).
edit: latter versions of only 62 minutes in length may have cut at least part of a sex scene in an elevator – to be investigated.
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Love how the clock radio shows 5:01 :)
Groan, that uncut version is IMPOSSIBLE to find! Was the full version released through Gagetape or another distributor?
when i’m back in town, i’ll check. this pic is from the back of the large vhs box
The trailer and the back of the box shows the glasses guy (an elevator scene I believe), but no version of the film I’ve ever been able to track down includes that scene. Was it cut?
GREAT QUESTION – i had noted the time differential between the original release in the large box (79 minutes), and subsequent releases in the small box format….but hadn’t noticed the specifics other than it seemed “mood scenes” like Holt driving the cab seemed to be missing. You are likely on to something with the guy in the large box cover art. I don’t think I have a copy of the small box, but can check (someday) to check on this. This is why my basement is full of large box earlier releases of VHS tapes!
Sweet! I’ve been searching for that scene for years :D
Hey there –
Any chance you’ve made a digital copy of Alister Armondo’s 501? I’ve been looking around and can seem to find it for purchase anywhere.
Keep it up – love your site!
Daniel
I had a copy of the VHS and it did include the elevator scene with Tom Law….very hot
Coming back to this thread, as I rewatched 501 this morning and I’ve discovered a fun little tidbit. This was quietly financed and distributed by straight adult industry legend Howard Winters (Command Cinema), and they still own the film! I’ve been working on extras for their hetero Blu-Ray releases, and am in touch with Winters’ son Brad, so am going to ask what elements and paperwork they have for this film. If a restoration is going to happen, this is the way to do it, and we need that elevator scene restored!
I also have discovered at least one of the musical pieces used in the film: Mark Shreeves’ “Assassin” (1983) is used to score the voyeuristic oral scene, with Daniel Holt looking at mags and imagining two guys blowing each other. The piece is a reworking of John Carpenter’s theme from ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13. I haven’t been able to determine definitively if Shreeve is in fact ‘Rick Rockwell’ who’s credited as the film’s composer, as he was primarily UK-based at this time, though he did produce tracks for the library music company Bruton so that might be where this came from. Trying to nail down the other songs is difficult, though I know the instrumental heard as Holt is driving through New York popped up in a ton of Matt Sterling shot-on-video productions around the same time…