Deep Throat - The Movie In Detail - Starring Linda Lovelace
Unsatisfied with her copious sexual shenanigans, Linda Lovelace goes to see Dr Young (Harry Reems) to find out why she cannot have a mind-blowing orgasm. After some investigation Dr Young finds out that Linda Lovelace's clitoris is located deep inside her throat and he prescribes that the only way she can experience a real orgasm is by performing deep throat - a method of cock sucking akin to sword swallowing - on her lovers, therefore stimulating her clitoris, and setting off the rockets and fireworks, bursting dams and bells that she has been waiting all her sexual life for.
Linda Lovelace's first dose of prescribed treatment is handed out by Dr Young himself, to amazing success, after which he takes her on as a physiotherapist, to help release the pent up sexual hang ups of his male patients, whilst also dosing out daily treatment to Miss Lovelace.
Deep Throat was the first porno film to be shot with something resembling a real budget. It was shot for $24,000 over a period of six days, a sum that was unheard of on a porn flick at that time. There is actually some acting, and some funny, but terribly predictable porn associated jokes in there. Deep Throat began the phenomena of porno chic, with its high production values, acting sequences and comedic moments and is reported to have grossed in excess of $600 million!
Linda Lovelace (real name Linda Susan Boreman, born 1949 in New York) was the first porno superstar, infamous for deep throating magnificently in Deep Throat, but never reaching the height of it's success again with any of her other films. In the 1970’s Linda Lovelace changed direction from porno superstar to feminist anti-porn campaigner, claiming that her husband and manager Chuck Traynor, forced her to perform at gunpoint in porn films, beginning in seedy loops for $50 a time. Linda Lovelace claimed she received dozens of beatings from Chuck during her career,. Several biographies about Linda Lovelace have been written which cultivated her as a fun loving, free loving sex icon, and one actually by Linda - Ordeal - claiming all that was known about her previous to this point was lies put out there by Chuck, and going on to detail the years of abuse she received at his hands. Several other female porn stars have disputed this claim and the word seems to be that Linda's abuse was at the hands of her manager Chuck Traynor, and is not a normal situation for the US porn Industry. And one person even said that this all came out in the autobiographies because Linda Lovelace was unhappy that her career did not continue to sky rocket after Deep Throat!
After her stint as porno sword swallowing superstar and apparent feminist anti porn campaigner, Linda Lovelace made another turn a few years later by posing fo porn mag Leg Show. She then claimed that Deep Throat had changed the sex lives of some couples, and that maybe it wasn't such a bad thing after all.
So who watched and enjoyed Deep Throat? Seemingly almost everybody - Jack Nicholson, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Warren Beatty, and anybody else who happened to be in town at the time. Several of its followers came out in support of the film, when Harry Reems and most of the people who worked on Deep Throat were arrested for transporting obscene material and the film was banned in New York. The court case eventually crashed, the ban lifted and moviegoers came in their thousands to see Deep Throat.
Linda Lovelace died in April 2002, after being injured in a car crash. Remember her as starting the porn chic phenomena, as a hypocrite feminist anti-porn campaigner, as an abused misled girl, or whether she actually should have been president!? But whether you try to remember Linda Lovelace or forget her, the greatest portion of the civilised world will remember her as the on screen portrayer of Deep Throat, that infamously pornographic movie that almost everybody you ask has heard of, but still a few don't admit to having seen!
“Gerard Damiano's first feature length porn film, Deep Throat starring Linda Lovelace remains the funniest and best porn film ever made. Is Deep Throat erotic? No, I have never gotten a boner from watching this film. Is Deep Throat sexy? Yes. And did I say it was funny? I saw it at the old Frisco Cinema near Times Square and saw it again this week. One word: Get it!”
“I saw Deep Throat in a seedy movie theater bach in 1973. The floors were sticky like the majority of movie theater floors were back then, but they didn't sell snacks there. I don't remember Deep Throat too much. Something about the G-spot being down your throat. But it was the best movie out until Star Wars.”
“I finally watched Deep Throat after years of hype. I can see why this movie shocked audiences back in the old days. Not that shocking these days. I saw a documentary on Deep Throat that I enjoyed more than the actual film!”