Deep Throat [Collector's Edition] [Blu-ray]

Director: Gerard Damiano, Jerry Gerard Gerard Damiano

Overview

The most financially successful adult film of all time, this hardcore comedy from director Gerard Damiano used farcical humor and curiosity value to usher in a brief age of so-called "porno chic" in the 1970s. The story concerns Linda (Linda Lovelace), a young woman terribly distressed because she doesn't "hear bells" when she makes love. A visit to the doctor (Harry Reems) reveals that the cause of her woes is that her clitoris is actually located deep in her throat. Linda adjusts to this biological anomaly by practicing oral sex and working as a sexual surrogate. Despite its tremendous success and a nicely done comic performance by Reems (also known as Herbert Streicher), Deep Throat is really not a very good film. The cinematography and sound quality are dreadful, and the sex scenes are staged more like those in an amateur stag film than a professional feature. The film nonetheless made a star of Lovelace, who later wrote a book claiming that the film's production manager, her then-boyfriend Chuck Traynor, had forced her to participate with threats and violence. Traynor later entered a lengthy affair with porn star Marilyn Chambers, while Damiano went on to make much better adult films starting with The Devil in Miss Jones (1973).

Product Details

Release Date:	11/27/2018
UPC:	0827421034045
Original Release:	1972
Source:	Sunset Films
Language:	English
Time:	1:01:00
Sales rank:	14,245

Special Features

Deep Throat 2 (1974) ; Interview with Linda Lovelace; Classic adult XXX trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Linda Lovelace	Actor
Harry Reams	Actor
Dolly Sharp	Actor
Harry Reems	Dr. Young
Bill Harrison	Dr. Maltz
Carol Connors	Assistant
John Byron	Actor
Gerard Damiano	Actor

Technical Credits

Gerard Damiano

Gerard Damiano	Director,Screenwriter
Louis Peraino	Producer
Jerry Gerard	Director

Editorial Reviews

The "porno chic" trend in the 1970s was characterized by three major films: The Devil in Miss Jones, Behind the Green Door, and Deep Throat. Like its two cohorts, Deep Throat offered more than sex, sex, and more sex. It actually pulls off some successful comic moments, many of them provided by Harry Reems as the doctor who discovers Linda's rather rare condition and suggests a novel program to treat it. The star, Linda Lovelace, became a household name, as otherwise respectable folks went to the theater under the real or contrived pretense of viewing an art film. The quality of the film is surprisingly poor given all the hype, though certainly better than lesser works of the porn genre. Modern-day enjoyment of Deep Throat is perhaps also marred by accounts of copious behind-the-scenes mischief, from Lovelace's repeated "auditions" for director Gerard Damiano's business partner father to her later allegations of being coerced, even raped, into her Deep Throat performance. Nevertheless, the movie is undeniably an American classic, if not necessarily for the usual reasons. The film, which became the most financially successful skin flick in history, achieved unlikely immortality with the revelation that it was the code name for the informant behind the Watergate scandal recounted in All the President's Men. Never before had linguistics seen a graphic sexual term launch to mainstream usage so fast, much to the horror of the easily offended.

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