Playboy: The Story of X (1998)
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
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Buck Henry as Self - Host |
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Christy Canyon as Self |
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Ginger Lynn as (archive footage) |
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Juliet Anderson as Self |
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Samuel Z. Arkoff as Self - Distributor |
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Juli Ashton as Self |
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Lisa De Leeuw as Self (archive footage) |
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John Holmes as Self (archive footage) |
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Samantha Fox as Self (archive footage) |
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Hugh Hefner as Self |
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Zalman King as Self - Producer |
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Jayne Mansfield as Self (archive footage) |
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Russ Meyer as Self - Producer and Director |
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Roman Polanski as Self (archive footage) |
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Vanessa del Rio as Self |
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SaRenna Lee as Self |
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Linda Lovelace as Self (archive footage) |
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Traci Lords as Self (archive footage) |
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Amber Lynn as Self (archive footage) |
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Bernardo Bertolucci as Self - Director |
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Marilyn Chambers as Self (archive footage) |
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David F. Friedman as Self |
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Mike Vraney as Self |
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Michael Medved as Self |
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Candy Barr as Herself |
| Production | John Leonetti | Producer |
| Art | Marc Greville-Masson | Production Design |
| Directing | Chuck Workman | Director |
| Editing | Chuck Workman | Editor |
