It’s nice work if you can get it.
An 83-year-old Manhattan federal judge says he just had to watch the 1972 porn classic “Deep Throat’’ as research for a $10 million related lawsuit.
Judge Thomas Greisa showed that he pored over the raunchy flick for his 27-page decision released Tuesday, counting “17 scenes of explicit sexual content” — and offering his own detailed XXX blow-by-blow of the climactic main one.
“In this scene, [late Bronx-born actress Linda] Lovelace meets with Dr. Young to discuss her inability to achieve an orgasm,’’ the octogenarian jurist writes.
“Dr. Young begins to examine Lovelace’s vagina with a telescope. He then uses his fingers and determines that Lovelace does not have a clitoris.
“Dr. Young then examines Lovelace’s throat and finds that her clitoris is actually in her throat. Dr. Young consoles Lovelace and then encourages her to try engaging in the form of oral sex, for which the film has its name, on him.’’
The legal case pitted the production firm which owns the rights to “Deep Throat’’ against the Weinstein Company, maker of the 2013 biopic “Lovelace,’’ about the “Deep Throat’’ star.
Nevada-based Arrow Productions sued Weinstein last year, saying it infringed on its copyrights by using original footage from the porn movie while also re-enacting scenes from it.
But Greisa, in dismissing the suit Tuesday, said the two movies can’t be compared because one is biographical and the other is simply porn.
“The heart, or core, of ‘Deep Throat’ is that it is a pornographic film that in particular, focuses on one type of pornographic act,” the judge wrote.
“Conversely, ‘Lovelace’ has an entirely different purpose — it is a critical biographical film. Thus, given that the two films have entirely different purposes, it is impossible that defendants’ could have copied the core of ‘Deep Throat.’ ”
In describing how both movies treat the main “Deep Throat’’ scene, the elderly judge turns up the heat again.
He notes how the biopic claims that “Young, in this shooting, ejaculates prematurely” while getting “oral sex.”
This causes “Deep Throat” producers to make fun at him and Lovelace to innocently ask, “Did I do something wrong?” the judge notes.
He argues that it’s hard to imagine the biopic damaging the reputation of “Deep Throat.’’
In fact, “plaintiffs have also not provided any basis for its claim that ‘Lovelace’ has tarnished the reputation of its [trademarks] ‘Linda Lovelace’ and Deep Throat,’ ” Greisa wrote.
Greisa had previously shot down Arrow’s request for a court order blocking the biopic’s marketing and distribution until the suit was decided.
The 92-minute “Lovelace’’ — starring actress Amanda Seyfried — hit theaters last August 2013.
Evan Landel, a lawyer for Arrow Productions, said the company is “reviewing the decision and considering an appeal.”
Lawyers for The Weinstein Company did not return messages.