1981

Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story

  • Documentary

It's hard, in the year 2001, to remember what porn was like in the 70s. In this decade when pornstars are on TV, date movie stars, and are on album covers, the secret world of men in raincoats attending sleazy theaters is hard to imagine. Now most people see porn on their cable or on video or DVD. Once upon a time, though, it was a big deal for a porn star to hit the mainstream, and John Holmes did just that. With a 14 inch endowment and not so good looks, Holmes made thousands of movies and slept with thousands of women. He became well known for his Johnny Wad series, where he was an international man of mystery and hard core sex. Eventually he got heavily into drugs, got involved in a brutal murder, and finally died of AIDS.

Cast

Dorothiea HundleyHerself
Jesie St. JamesVickey Caruthers
Georgina SpelvinAlexandra
Annette HavenGirl in Opening Credits Only (archive footage)
Linda WongJasmine (archive footage)
Laurien DominiquePenny Holmes (archive footage)

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