Playboy: The Story of X
100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars
Genres
Overview
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
82 min
Release Date
1998-01-01
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
7
Vote Average
6.3
Buck Henry
Self - Host
Christy Canyon
Self
Ginger Lynn Allen
(archive footage)
Juliet Anderson
Self
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Self - Distributor
Juli Ashton
Self
Lisa De Leeuw
Self (archive footage)
John Holmes
Self (archive footage)
Samantha Fox
Self (archive footage)
Hugh Hefner
Self
Zalman King
Self - Producer
Jayne Mansfield
Self (archive footage)
Russ Meyer
Self - Producer and Director
Roman Polanski
Self (archive footage)
Vanessa del Rio
Self
SaRenna Lee
Self
Linda Lovelace
Self (archive footage)
Traci Lords
Self (archive footage)
Amber Lynn
Self (archive footage)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Self - Director
Marilyn Chambers
Self (archive footage)
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