The Porno King (1976)

5.2/10 83 min Documentary

Overview

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!

Cast

Benoît Archenoul

Self

Frédérique Barral

Self

Claudine Beccarie

Self

Françoise Beccarie

Self

Sylvia Bourdon

Self

Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Self

Marie-Christine Chireix

Self

Jocelyne Clairis

Self

Michel Dauba

Self

Jack Gatteau

Self

Béatrice Harnois

Self

Claude Janna

Self

Liliane Allan

Self

Corinne Lemoine

Self

Richard Lemieuvre

Self (uncredited)

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