The Porno King
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!
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Top 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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