The Porno King (1976)
This is a documentary on the 70's French porn industry. There are generally two kinds of porn documentaries--those that actually take an insightful look behind the scenes, and those that are just an excuse to show a lot of nudity and XXX porn footage. This is actually somewhere in between. It's generously seasoned with porn footage, but there are also a lot of (fully-clothed) interviews, and they even talk to the owners of porn theaters, some typical porn customers (including some pre-adolescent boys who are walking by the the theater--I wonder what their parents thought of that?), as well as a guy who makes promotional billboards for porn movies although he claims never to have seen one!
Director: Jean-François Davy
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Benoît Archenoul as Self |
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Frédérique Barral as Self |
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Claudine Beccarie as Self |
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Françoise Beccarie as Self |
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Sylvia Bourdon as Self |
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Jean-Christophe Bouvet as Self |
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Marie-Christine Chireix as Self |
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Jocelyne Clairis as Self |
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Michel Dauba as Self |
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Jack Gatteau as Self |
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Béatrice Harnois as Self |
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Claude Janna as Self |
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Liliane Allan as Self |
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Corinne Lemoine as Self |
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Richard Lemieuvre as Self (uncredited) |
| Directing | Jean-François Davy | Director |
| Writing | Jean-François Davy | Writer |