Inside Deep Throat (2005)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Directors:

Fenton Bailey
Randy Barbato

Writers:

Fenton Bailey (co-writer)
Randy Barbato (co-writer)

Release Date:

21 April 2005 (Russia)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

It was filmed in 6 days for 25 thousand dollars. The government didn't want you to see it. It was banned in 23 states. It has grossed over 600 million dollars. And it is the most profitable film in motion picture history.

Plot:

More than 30 years after Deep Throat's provocative debut, this documentary examines the legacy that the most profitable film of all-time left on society.

Plot Keywords:

Porn Industry | Explicit Sex | What Happened To Epilogue | Archive Footage | Film Clip

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Dennis Hopper	...	Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Bart	...	Himself
Warren Beatty	...	Himself (archive footage)
Carl Bernstein	...	Himself
Tony Bill	...	Himself
Ralph Blumenthal	...	Himself
Barbara Boreman	...	Herself - Linda's sister
Helen Gurley Brown	...	Herself
Susan Brownmiller	...	Herself
Len Camp	...	Himself - location manager (as Lenny Camp)
Lee Carroll	...	Herself (archive footage)
Patsy Carroll	...	Herself - Linda's friend
Johnny Carson	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dick Cavett	...	Himself
Roy M. Cohn	...	Himself (archive footage)
Francis Ford Coppola	...	Himself (archive footage)
Wes Craven	...	Himself
Gerard Damiano	...	Himself
Gerard Damiano Jr.	...	Himself
Alan M. Dershowitz	...	Himself (as Alan Dershowitz)
Sepy Dobronyi	...	Himself
Eric Edwards	...	Himself (archive footage)
Larry Flynt	...	Himself
Al Goldstein	...	Himself
John Goreman	...	Himself - Former NYPD officer (as John Gorman)
Ray Gunn	...	Himself (as Ray Pistol)
Hugh M. Hefner	...	Himself (as Hugh Hefner)
Xaviera Hollander	...	Herself
Bob Hope	...	Himself (archive footage)
Erica Jong	...	Herself
Herb Kassner	...	Himself - Deep Throat attorney
Charles Keating	...	Himself
Bill Kelly	...	Himself
Bruce Kramer	...	Himself
Jon Lewis	...	Himself
Linda Lovelace	...	Herself (archive footage)
Bill Maher	...	Himself
Norman Mailer	...	Himself
Peter Manouse	...	Himself
Lindsay Marchiano	...	Herself
William Margold	...	Himself (archive footage)
Camille Paglia	...	Herself
Larry Parrish	...	Himself
Michael Pataki	...	Cab driver (archive footage)
Ed Powers	...	Himself (archive footage)
William Purcell	...	Himself - Deep Throat prosecutor
Harry Reems	...	Himself
Ray Shipley	...	Himself
Arthur Sommer	...	Himself - theater manager
Terry Sommer	...	Himself
Georgina Spelvin	...	Herself
Annie Sprinkle	...	Herself
Selena Steele	...	Herself (archive footage)
Mike Sullivan	...	Himself - former NYPD officer
Andrea True	...	Herself
Gore Vidal	...	Himself
John Waters	...	Himself
Ron Wertheim	...	Himself
Ruth Westheimer	...	Herself (as Dr. Ruth Westheimer)
Linda Williams	...	Herself
David Winters	...	Himself

MPAA:

Rated NC-17 for explicit sexual content; Rated R for strong sexuality including graphic images, nudity and dialogue (edited version)

Runtime:

USA:92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Hong Kong:III | Sweden:15 | Netherlands:16 | Japan:R-18 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich) | Malaysia:(Banned) | Philippines:R-18 | Iceland:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Italy:VM14 | France:-12 | South Korea:18 | Argentina:18 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:R (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:K-18 | Ireland:18 | Singapore:R21 (cut) | UK:18 | USA:NC-17 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | USA:R (edited version) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Australia:R

Company:

Imagine Entertainment

Trivia:

The film discusses how Deep Throat (1972) was actually distributed to theaters. Prints would be hand-delivered and employees would count heads of moviegoers and then collect the cash profits from the theaters. This process was known as sending "checkers and sweepers".

Goofs:

Continuity: Early in the film, a person is shown transporting the film with "Deep Throat" painted one the film case. The case he carries holds only two reels or 40 minutes of film. When the case is opened in the projection room it has grown to a 3 reel case and when the police seize the film a few minutes later, the case is a 4 reel size, the correct size for this film.

Quotes:

Erica Jong: It was based on the idea that all a man had to do was put his penis down a woman's throat and thrust and the woman was as satisfied as the man. Well, guess what?

Movie Connections:

References Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult (1967)

Soundtrack:

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brilliant

i am an unashamed porn fan, not in the sense that i sit around all the time watching th stuff, but in the sense that i find the people involved in the making and distribution of the stuff to be very interesting, if not somewhat shady and bizarre people but none the less they have a story to share that not many people can lay claim to and so i like to give any material broaching the subject, particularly in its formative years, a listen.

so i haven't seen deep throat, and i don't really want to, if I'm going to watch people engaging in sexual acts i will buy something a little more intense and modern without all the premise of having a plot for arts sake. but this documentary is not about the film persae, it is about the people involved with it and how it affected their lives.

we see and hear from a lot of people who's lives have been both positively and negatively affected by this film over the years and it gives the viewer an insight into what really makes these people get involved in the business to begin with, and surprisingly enough its not just the money as there wasn't much money in it for the actors as such back in the 70s.

so i suggest that anybody that has an interest in rights and freedoms should really watch this as it gives a deeper appreciation of these simple gifts that we have to live by today and are so readily taken for granted.

if you like this kinda stuff also check out a film called Wadd which is about the life and death of john Holmes and also read How to make love like a porn star, the autobiography of Jenna Jameson.