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Playboy: The Story of X
100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars
The Story of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through the movie house years to the arrival of the home video business, and now the Internet. Meet the men behind the camera, such as "King of Sexploitation" Dave Friedman and the preeminent breast man Russ Meyer. Considered pariahs at the time, they're now hailed as pioneers in the fight against censorship. The Story of X visits the '60s when women's rights, not nudity, became the issue and recounts porn's arrival in Hollywood, led by director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris. In the '70s, several groundbreaking films, including Behind the Green Door featuring Marilyn Chambers and Deep Throat featuring Linda Lovelace, took the genre to a new level.
Cast
- Buck Henry as Self - Host
- Christy Canyon as Self
- Ginger Lynn Allen as (archive footage)
- Juliet Anderson as Self
- Samuel Z. Arkoff as Self - Distributor
- Juli Ashton as Self
- Lisa De Leeuw as Self (archive footage)
- John Holmes as Self (archive footage)
- Samantha Fox as Self (archive footage)
- Hugh Hefner as Self
- Zalman King as Self - Producer
- Jayne Mansfield as Self (archive footage)
Details
- Director
- Chuck Workman
- Released
- January 1, 1998
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.8 / 10 from 8 votes
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