The Porno King

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!

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 27, 1976

Original language

English

Spoken languages

French

Countries

France

Cast

Claude Janna,Benoît Archenoul,Michel Dauba,Françoise Beccarie,Sylvia Bourdon,Jean-Christophe Bouvet,Frédérique Barral,Liliane Allan,Marie-Christine Chireix,Richard Lemieuvreand 5 more

Director

Jean-François Davy

Writer

Jean-François Davy

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0244720