Deep Throat Revisited - Sex~Kitten.net

The 1974 porn classic has been re-released in a new 35mm print that's been paying at midnight showings at theaters across the US (check your local listings). My porn-making buddies and I were sulking one Friday night after another canceled shoot (actresses got sick), so what better way to lift our spirits than to got actually watch a porn! I'd seen bits and pieces of "Deep Throat" before, but never the whole film. Seeing it on the big screen would be an even bigger treat.

The five of us stumbled, half-drunk, into the midnight showing, making a ruckus and poking fun at those wearing long trenchcoats. Suprisingly, the theater was somewhat full with a mix of couples, single men, and the five of us giggling and chattering away. As we wondered what the previews were going to be, the movie abruptly began. The jangly 70's soundtrack propelled us back to a different era as we watched Linda Lovelace drive and drive and drive for what seems like an eternity. Where could she be going? Well, it turns out she's just going home, where some anonymous guy is eating her transvestite-looking roommate out. An orgy is soon to come which prompts Linda to complain to her roommate that she want "to hear bells, whistles go off" when she's having sex, but it never happens.

Linda winds up at the office of Dr. Young, played by Harry Reems, who discovers through a thorough check-up that Linda's clitoris is not in her pussy, but her throat. The solution to this dilemma? Why it could only be "deep throat". Dr. Young volunteers his cock for Linda to try on and for the first time we are exposed to Lovelace's amazing ability to swallow an entire cock in her mouth. The spectacle itself is akin to a "Ripley's Believe it or Not" exhibit. I would say it's necessarily a turn-on, but it definitely makes your jaw drop open, so to speak.

Dr. young puts Linda to work for him right away, as a nurse who relieves men of their sexual problems. One of the more notable clients is a guy who enjoys drinking wine and Coke out of Linda's vagina through a long tube-like straw. Others just enjoy a lot of cock sucking. Dr.Young gets fucked by Thora Birch's mom (or so it is rumored to be). A few more orgies occur until Linda's dorky boyfriend asks her to marry him. She replies that she can't marry a guy "unless he has a nine-inch cock", which prompts him to take a visit to Dr.Young to have his penis size decreased. About as abruptly as it started, the movie ends, leaving one to wonder what the big deal was all about.

Director Gerard Damiano has stated that "it's not a very good movie", and I would have to agree with him. Scenes go in and out of focus, the sound is positively horrible (our punishment for sitting in the back I guess), and the sex is hardly titillating. Some of the dialogue is amusing, but only a handful of the actors are attractive, This was also the heyday of the hairy pubes and if you can get past the hairiness of all the actors, you might get a little turned on.

None of us left the theater saying, "we have to re-create that", but I think the cultural impact of the film stayed with us. If you can get a chance it is worth seeing what all the hoopla is about, but don't expect to hear bells or whistles.