Playboy: The Story of X

Playboy: The Story of X

100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars

1998•1h 22m•6.3/10

Documentary

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6.3/10(7)

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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EN

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Cast

Buck Henry

Buck Henry

Self - Host

Christy Canyon

Christy Canyon

Self

Ginger Lynn

Ginger Lynn

(archive footage)

Juliet Anderson

Juliet Anderson

Self

Samuel Z. Arkoff

Samuel Z. Arkoff

Self - Distributor

Juli Ashton

Juli Ashton

Self

Lisa De Leeuw

Lisa De Leeuw

Self (archive footage)

John Holmes

John Holmes

Self (archive footage)

Samantha Fox

Samantha Fox

Self (archive footage)

Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

Self

Zalman King

Zalman King

Self - Producer

Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield

Self (archive footage)

Russ Meyer

Russ Meyer

Self - Producer and Director

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

Self (archive footage)

Vanessa del Rio

Vanessa del Rio

Self

SaRenna Lee

SaRenna Lee

Self

Linda Lovelace

Linda Lovelace

Self (archive footage)

Traci Lords

Traci Lords

Self (archive footage)

Amber Lynn

Amber Lynn

Self (archive footage)

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

Self - Director

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