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The quintessential porno flick, its mere name immediately brings to mind what the film was about (providing blow jobs to men) although allegedly there were other things in the film. (The only part of the movie I saw was the opening scene where a car is driving past trees, this apparently being the only part of the film they could show when ''[[
While it was quite the trendsetter at the time, launching a genre that [[The Other Wiki]] refers to as [[wikipedia:porno chic|porno chic]], it's real claim to fame was the connection with the Watergate scandal. For decades, we only knew [[All the President's Men|Woodward and Bernstein's]] informant, Mark Felt, by the code name of "Deep Throat". The fact that his information on the Watergate Hotel breakin led to the downfall of [[Richard Nixon]] only enhanced the mystique of the film, keeping the name of the porn flick on the news for years to come.
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