Playboy: The Story of X
100 Years of Adult Film and Its Stars
1998 | 82m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Chuck Workman |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jan 01, 1998 |
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| Director: | Chuck Workman |
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| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | pornography, porn actor, porn actress |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Buck Henry | Self - Host |
| Christy Canyon | Self |
| Ginger Lynn Allen | (archive footage) |
| Juliet Anderson | Self |
| Samuel Z. Arkoff | Self - Distributor |
| Juli Ashton | Self |
| Lisa De Leeuw | Self (archive footage) |
| John Holmes | Self (archive footage) |
| Samantha Fox | Self (archive footage) |
| Hugh Hefner | Self |
| Zalman King | Self - Producer |
| Jayne Mansfield | Self (archive footage) |
| Russ Meyer | Self - Producer and Director |
| Roman Polanski | Self (archive footage) |
| Vanessa del Rio | Self |
| SaRenna Lee | Self |
| Linda Lovelace | Self (archive footage) |
| Traci Lords | Self (archive footage) |
| Amber Lynn | Self (archive footage) |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | Self - Director |
| Marilyn Chambers | Self (archive footage) |
| Name | Job |
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| Marc Greville-Masson | Production Design |
| Chuck Workman | Director, Editor |
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| John Leonetti | Producer |
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