Behind the Green Door

Introduced by Linda Williams

"Pornography has been a staple of the cinema from the year dot. At no time, however, was it so respectable as in the America of the early 70s. Hardcore porn was then shown in respectable mainstream cinemas, and respectable couples did not care a jot if anyone saw them going in or coming out....Behind the Green Door...was the most stylish, and some say the most erotic, of all these movies....Marilyn Chambers, its star, who is pleasured by nuns, a well–known boxer, and three trapeze artists in the film, was also the '99.44% pure Ivory Snow girl' of advertising fame at the time. She became an instant celebrity....(The Mitchell Brothers) were delighted that women were the bedrock of their audience. There were as many female commentators who approved of the film as disapproved, since it was about a woman totally liberated by experiences that had previously been part of her private and unattainable fantasies."

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