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| Linda Lovelace for President | |
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| Directed by | Claudio Guzman |
| Produced by | David Winters Charles Strourd |
| Written by | Jack S. Margolis |
| Starring | Linda Lovelace Micky Dolenz Scatman Crothers Joe E. Ross Vaughn Meader Chuck McCann |
| Music by | Bic Mac & The Truckers |
| Cinematography | Robert Birchall |
| Editing by | Richard Greer |
| Distributed by | General Film Corp. |
| Release date(s) | March 1, 1975 (USA) |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
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Linda Lovelace for President is a 1975 comedy film directed by Claudio Guzman and starring Linda Lovelace, who achieved notoriety as the central character in the 1972 X-rated film Deep Throat.
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Plot
A committee of independent U.S. political party leaders have gathered to join forces and select a candidate for the upcoming presidential election. One of the committee members flippantly suggests nominating Linda Lovelace. The committee approaches the porn star, who agrees to be the flag bearer of the newly-formed Upright Party. Lovelace’s campaign takes her on a cross-country tour, where she meets voters in stops ranging from crowded big cities to isolated rural towns. Lovelace’s popularity, however, threatens the Washington, D.C., establishment, and her political rivals dispatch a hit man known as The Assassinator to bring a fatal end to the Lovelace campaign.[1]
Production
After the 1972 release of Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity notoriety, which included appearances at the Academy Awards ceremony and the opening day of the racing season at Ascot Racecourse plus author credit for two best-selling books that played up on her status as a pornographic icon. By 1974, however, her career stalled. An R-rated sequel to her breakthrough film, Deep Throat Part II, was commercially unsuccessful, and her attempts to establish success as a nightclub singer and stage actress were considered failures. The film Linda Lovelace for President was designed to establish the star’s crossover appeal with mainstream moviegoers.[2]
The film brought in several recognizable actors for guest appearances. Featured in the film were Micky Dolenz of The Monkees as a near-sighted bus driver, Scatman Crothers as a pool hall hustler, Joe E. Ross as a political operative, Vaughn Meader as a preacher who lusts after Lovelace, and Chuck McCann as The Assassinator.[2] However, much of the film played up Lovelace's starring role in Deep Throat with jokey reminders of the X-rated film's oral sex subject matter (i.e., the slogan for the Lovelace campaign is "A vote for Linda is a blow for democracy").[3]
Lovelace’s husband at the time, David Winters, was one of the film’s producers.[4]
Part of the film was shot on the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas[5], and at Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri.[6]
Reception
Linda Lovelace for President was theatrically released in X-rated, R-rated and PG-rated versions. None of versions were commercially successful. Linda Lovelace made no further films after this production.
Over the years, bootleg versions of Linda Lovelace for President were released on home video.[7] A commercial DVD version is scheduled for release in August 2008 on the Dark Sky/MPI label.[8]
References
- ^ “Linda Lovelace for President,” New York Times
- ^ a b Film Threat review
- ^ "Film," New York Press, April 12, 2000
- ^ Weldon, Michael J. "The Psychotronic Video Guide." Page 334. St. Martin's Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-312-13149-6
- ^ Lawrence Journal World, 19 May, 2003
- ^ Kansas City Public Library
- ^ "In Defense of 'Linda Lovelace for President'" RetroLowFi.com review
- ^ "Linda Lovelace for President," Video Business Magazine