There’s no way you’d figure this to be a Scotty Fox feature.  No Bozo shoes, no squirting flowers, no joy buzzers, no Cash Markman script, ergo, no humor.

Betrayal Of Innocence is a relatively solemn affair made all the more so by the insistent dirge of weeping gypsy violin music.  Lensed in Budapest, and rendered entirely in voiceover, the exteriors are cold and wintry and the script (penned by Fox) is about as upbeat as Dr. Zhivago.  It trumpets the sexual adventures of a blond country girl, Marika (played by a European starlet named Angel), on the lam in the big city because she has bumped off her stepfather who has disapproved of her relationship with her lover, Miklos.

Like Dr. Zhivago, Marika shuttles between assignations with the frequency of the New York subway system.  She takes a job at a sex club and acquires a benefactor man named Laslo.  It’s through him that naïve Marika engenders her contacts with the sexual outside world.

Palpably, there are no American stars in this venue that you can relate to, and the first-name-only’s ascribed to the cast members would only bear relevance to anal retentives.  Sexually, the feature is provocative, in the sense that we’re dealing with the novelty of fresh performers.  As we’ve come to see with other Budapestian features, the women are country-fresh pretty.  Comparatively, the girl/girl (check out a pretty brunette named Alexis) or multi-girl encounters in Betrayal of Innocence rate hotter than the male-female square-offs.

For the most part, Betrayal of Innocence is fairly mainstream.  There’s nothing daredevilish or on the cutting edge (well, there IS a shaving scene) as we’d expect from a European-based entry, though the three-girl, two-man orgy with Marika comes as close to being prosaically out-of-control as Scotty Fox will ever get.  (Tip: Part 2, the trailer of which is included, indicate wilder times ahead.)

Betrayal of Innocence is a quality production of generous achievement that has the benefit of European splendor and old world charm.  There’s more than an abundance of action throughout this 2-hour show, but it remains to be seen whether an all-European contingent will curry favor with an American audience.  Historically, it’s a tough sell.