The Playboy Forum
August, 1976
The Memphis Porno TrialsHarry Reems has achieved a kind of immortality. Not only is he the male lead in the first full-scale pornographic movie to be publicly exhibited in legitimate commercial moviehouses and to receive acclaim from serious film critics but he is also the first person ever prosecuted and convicted by the Federal Government for performing in Deep Throat. His conviction in Memphis last May is part of a huge series of trials around pornographic movies being conducted at enormous p...
