Browntown
02-21-2005, 11:48 AM
Review: Inside Deep Throat
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We had just seen "Kinsey", a movie about the kickstart to the sexual revolution in the late 40's. A story about an educational and literal success that changed the nation. In 1971, a porn film that rock the world called "Deep Throat" made the USA recognize pornographic movies were entering the artistic culture. The budget was about 25,000 dollars (mostly mob money) and it grossed over 600 Million Dollars. The most profitable independent movie ever! "Inside Deep Throat" is a documentary by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Party Monster) and shows the story of the governments attack on the movie itself. Nixon and his attack dogs went after this film much like they did against Larry Flynt. The documentary explains why in detail.
This is one really funny film because the people who took part of "Deep Throat" were funny. Director Gerald Damiano (a Queens hairdresser turned porn auteur) is a skinny guy with an awful rug on his head who called his own movie 'not very good'. Camera guy Ron Wertheim is a bug eyed troll. Linda Lovelace was a young wife of an asshole who did a neat trick while giving a blow job (which became the title). And an assorted group of very nice people who were part of the distribution. The host of big name commentary (Wes Craven started in porn, Bill Maher saw it when he was 19, studio head Peter Bart) and great footage of Harry Reems with Beatty and Nicholson. Also interviewed are the law enforcement people (a sorry group of righteous gagsters) led by Memphis DA Larry Parrish.
The failure of this movie is not going too deep into the fall of Linda Lovelace and her thug husband Chuck Trainor. I guess producer Brian Glazier will get into that with a real life movie. And who were the mob guys...not much on that either. This is a very graphic film (yes! they show the act), and the debate between Harry Reems and Roy Cohn is quite bizarre (Cohn was a right wing stooge... and closet pervert for Nixon). Worth a look for all Stern Fans.
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We had just seen "Kinsey", a movie about the kickstart to the sexual revolution in the late 40's. A story about an educational and literal success that changed the nation. In 1971, a porn film that rock the world called "Deep Throat" made the USA recognize pornographic movies were entering the artistic culture. The budget was about 25,000 dollars (mostly mob money) and it grossed over 600 Million Dollars. The most profitable independent movie ever! "Inside Deep Throat" is a documentary by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Party Monster) and shows the story of the governments attack on the movie itself. Nixon and his attack dogs went after this film much like they did against Larry Flynt. The documentary explains why in detail.
This is one really funny film because the people who took part of "Deep Throat" were funny. Director Gerald Damiano (a Queens hairdresser turned porn auteur) is a skinny guy with an awful rug on his head who called his own movie 'not very good'. Camera guy Ron Wertheim is a bug eyed troll. Linda Lovelace was a young wife of an asshole who did a neat trick while giving a blow job (which became the title). And an assorted group of very nice people who were part of the distribution. The host of big name commentary (Wes Craven started in porn, Bill Maher saw it when he was 19, studio head Peter Bart) and great footage of Harry Reems with Beatty and Nicholson. Also interviewed are the law enforcement people (a sorry group of righteous gagsters) led by Memphis DA Larry Parrish.
The failure of this movie is not going too deep into the fall of Linda Lovelace and her thug husband Chuck Trainor. I guess producer Brian Glazier will get into that with a real life movie. And who were the mob guys...not much on that either. This is a very graphic film (yes! they show the act), and the debate between Harry Reems and Roy Cohn is quite bizarre (Cohn was a right wing stooge... and closet pervert for Nixon). Worth a look for all Stern Fans.