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Bryanston Distributing

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Overview

Bryanston Distributing was an American distribution company that released such cult classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Dark Star. The company started in 1972. Their first hit was the infamous porn film Deep Throat. Gangsters Louis Peraino and Joseph Peraino Sr. of the Columbo crime family were President and Vice-President/Secretary-Treasurer of the company. A financially-disastrous distribution deal for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre left the company in bankruptcy, and obscenity charges over Deep Throat killed it dead.

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