Playboy: The Story of X

Playboy: The Story of X (1998)

100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1998-01-01
  • User Rating: 6.3/10 from 7 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 22min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Chuck Workman
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Summary

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.

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  • 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)
Editing Chuck Workman Editor
Art Marc Greville-Masson Production Design
Production John Leonetti Producer
Directing Chuck Workman Director

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