Playboy: The Story of X (1998)

Playboy: The Story of X (1998)

100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars 1998-01-01 United States of America 82 Min. PG-13
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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.

Cast

Buck Henry is Self - Host
Self - Host
Ginger Lynn Allen is (archive footage)
(archive footage)
Samuel Z. Arkoff is Self - Distributor
Self - Distributor
Lisa De Leeuw is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
John Holmes is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Samantha Fox is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Zalman King is Self - Producer
Self - Producer
Jayne Mansfield is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)