Still, Bakshi’s Fritz the Cat, which screens at the Walter Reade Theater this Friday night at midnight, was the first X-rated animated film and is, to this day, the most financially successful ...

Originally advertised as “X-rated and animated,” “Fritz the Cat” scored a hit when it was released in 1972, earning a then-impressive $25 million. (It cost only $850,000--a shoestring even ...