Playboy: The Story of X

Playboy: The Story of X

82 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1998

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.

Playboy: The Story of X

82 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1998

Playboy: The Story of X
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.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers
Original title Playboy: The Story of X
Directors Chuck Workman
Writers

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)

Russ Meyer

as Self - Producer and Director

Roman Polanski

as Self (archive footage)

Vanessa del Rio

as Self

SaRenna Lee

as Self

Linda Lovelace

as Self (archive footage)

Traci Lords

as Self (archive footage)

Amber Lynn

as Self (archive footage)

Bernardo Bertolucci

as Self - Director

Marilyn Chambers

as Self (archive footage)