:57:00
Are you enjoying this?
:57:01
[footsteps approaching]
:57:02
Damn it.
You're some kind of nut.
:57:06
(Sommer)
Okay. They're finished,
Terry, all right?
:57:17
(Hopper)
Finally, after three years
of FBI investigation,
:57:20
the government launched one of
the most ambitious
obscenity trials ever mounted,
:57:25
Designed to nail Deep Throat
and all pornographic films
:57:28
once and for all,
:57:32
(Bruce Kramer)
I think this case was
a case of prosecution
:57:36
that was directed,
orchestrated,
:57:39
uh, from washington, D.C.
:57:43
(Hopper)
All told, 1 17 people
were charged with conspiracy,:
:57:48
from the distributor
to the projectionist,
:57:51
And one man,
:57:52
the government intended to
make an example of,
:57:56
The director had immunity,
:57:58
The star had immunity,
:58:00
but the actor did not,
:58:09
The theory was,
if you prosecuted the star
:58:11
then nobody would ever
wanna make a film like this.
:58:14
And you could drive
the industry out of business.
:58:17
(Kramer)
Harry Reems was paid $250
to appear in Deep Throat,
:58:22
He had no control,
:58:24
no say, no input
:58:27
with what the final version
of this film was gonna be
:58:30
or whether it was gonna be
distributed interstate,
:58:33
intrastate, intergalactic.
:58:35
It's impressive,
for the first time
:58:37
in the history
of the United States
:58:38
an artist has ever been
brought to trial
by the government,
:58:42
(reporter)
All of the trials
have been prosecuted
:58:44
by a young assistant
US attorney
named Larry Parrish,
:58:47
a lay Protestant preacher
who has been quoted as saying
:58:50
he'd rather get smut off
the streets of Memphis
than dope,
:58:54
Larry Parrish is the...
About one of the finest people
:58:57
l've ever known
in my entire life.