Deep Throat (film)
Overview
Deep Throat is a 1972 American pornographic film written and directed by Gerard Damiano
(listed in the credits as "Jerry Gerard") and produced by Louis Peraino (as "Lou Perry") and starring Linda Lovelace
(the pseudonym of Linda Susan Boreman).
One of the first pornographic films to feature a plot, character development and relatively high production standards, Deep Throat earned mainstream attention and launched the "porn chic" trend despite the film being banned in some regions and the subject of obscenity trials.
A sexually frustrated woman (Linda Lovelace
, credited as playing herself) asks her friend Helen (played by Dolly Sharp) for advice on how to achieve an orgasm
.
Gerard Damiano
Gerard Damiano was an American director of adult films and producer, writer and director of the 1972 cult classic Deep Throat .-Biography:...
(listed in the credits as "Jerry Gerard") and produced by Louis Peraino (as "Lou Perry") and starring Linda Lovelace
Linda Lovelace
Linda Susan Boreman , better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, was an American pornographic actress who was famous for her performance of deep throat fellatio in the enormously successful 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat...
(the pseudonym of Linda Susan Boreman).
One of the first pornographic films to feature a plot, character development and relatively high production standards, Deep Throat earned mainstream attention and launched the "porn chic" trend despite the film being banned in some regions and the subject of obscenity trials.
A sexually frustrated woman (Linda Lovelace
Linda Lovelace
Linda Susan Boreman , better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, was an American pornographic actress who was famous for her performance of deep throat fellatio in the enormously successful 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat...
, credited as playing herself) asks her friend Helen (played by Dolly Sharp) for advice on how to achieve an orgasm
Orgasm
Orgasm is the peak of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, characterized by an intense sensation of pleasure...
.
Quotations
[on the telephone with Dr. Young.] You gotta help me. I'm in love with Linda. We want to get married... thank you. There's only one problem - she needs a nine inch cock.
[while receiving cunnilingus|cunnilingus] Mind if I smoke, while you're eating?
No wonder you can't hear any bells! You don't have a tinkler!
The doctor is explaining that the reason that Linda does not have orgasms is that she has no clitoris; it is later discovered to be in the back of her throat.
Virtually every time someone watches that movie, they're watching me being raped.
Linda Lovelace, testifying before the Meese Commission|Meese Commission.
It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time.
Linda Lovelace, interviewed in the Toronto Sun, March 20, 1981.
Category:Pornography
Category:Erotic films