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    Playboy: The Story of X

    82'

    1998-01-01

    6.8

    100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars

    Documentary

    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.

    DirectingChuck Workman

    Cast

    1

    Self - Host

    Buck Henry

    N/A

    Self

    Christy Canyon

    N/A

    (archive footage)

    Ginger Lynn Allen

    N/A

    Self

    Juliet Anderson

    1

    Self - Distributor

    Samuel Z. Arkoff

    N/A

    Self

    Juli Ashton

    N/A

    Self (archive footage)

    Lisa De Leeuw

    N/A

    Self (archive footage)

    John Holmes

    N/A

    Self (archive footage)

    Samantha Fox

    1

    Self

    Hugh Hefner

    1

    Self - Producer

    Zalman King

    2

    Self (archive footage)

    Jayne Mansfield

    2

    Self - Producer and Director

    Russ Meyer

    2

    Self (archive footage)

    Roman Polanski

    N/A

    Self

    Vanessa del Rio

    N/A

    Self

    SaRenna Lee

    N/A

    Self (archive footage)

    Linda Lovelace

    N/A

    Self (archive footage)

    Traci Lords

    N/A

    Self (archive footage)

    Amber Lynn

    2

    Self - Director

    Bernardo Bertolucci

    N/A

    Self (archive footage)

    Marilyn Chambers

    N/A

    Self

    David F. Friedman

    N/A

    Self

    Mike Vraney

    1

    Self

    Michael Medved

    N/A

    Herself

    Candy Barr

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. United States of America
    • List of languages:
      1. English
    • List of companies:
      1. Vote Count: 8
      2. Popularity: 1.339
      3. Status: Released
      4. Original title:Playboy: The Story of X

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