Release Date
Original Release
January 1, 1998
1h 22m
Playboy: The Story of X (1998)
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.
Director
Chuck Workman
Department: Directing
Cast
Buck Henry
Self - Host
Christy Canyon
Self
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Ginger Lynn
(archive footage)
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Juliet Anderson
Self
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Samuel Z. Arkoff
Self - Distributor
Juli Ashton
Self
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Lisa De Leeuw
Self (archive footage)
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John Holmes
Self (archive footage)
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Samantha Fox
Self (archive footage)
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Hugh Hefner
Self
