Behind the Green Door (1972)

Directors:

Artie Mitchell
Jim Mitchell

Writer:

Anonymous (story)

Release Date:

17 December 1972 (USA)

Genre:

Adult | Drama

Tagline:

The All-American Girl.

Plot:

Two men enter a fast food place. The owner asks them about a mysterious matter. After some considerations...

Plot Keywords:

Nudity | Anonymous Story | Audience Participation | Cult Favorite | Licking

Cast

Marilyn Chambers	...	Gloria Saunders
George S. MacDonald	...	Barry Clark (as George S. McDonald)
Johnny Keyes	...	African stud (as Johnnie Keyes)
Lisa Grant	...	Matron
Yank Levine	...	Dudley
Angela Castle	...	Mime and audience member (as Toad Attell and Angela Castle)
Ben Davidson	...	Porter the Bouncer
Adrienne Mitchell	...	Waitress
Dana Fuller	...	Hank - the cook
Dale Meador	...	Hotel clerk (as Dale Meade)
Jim Mitchell	...	First kidnapper (as James Mitchell)
Artie Mitchell	...	Second kidnapper (as Art Mitchell)
Mike Bradford	...	Parking lot attendant
Tony Royale	...	Guard
Bunny Brody	...	Female attendant

Runtime:

72 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:X | Australia:X | Finland:(Banned) (1995) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Jartech

Trivia:

After seeing her (under the name Marilyn Briggs) in Wes Craven's 1971 film Together (1971), the Mitchell Brothers offered Marilyn Chambers a role in this movie, giving her the option of taking a role in which she wasn't required to have sex. Originally, Chambers chose a non-sex role, but allowed the Brothers to talk her into taking the lead. For her gig, she was paid $25,000 and 1% of earnings (which in 1974, brought her between $2,000 and $2,500 per month), the highest amount ever paid a porn performer. Chambers said that her experience was a good one as the Brothers treated her as an actress, with respect.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "SexTV: Black/White: Sex, Race & Profit/Mimi 4 Governor (#8.28)" (2006)

The all-American classic

Behind the Green Door is a ground-braking movie, it was the first adult movie with widely released in the United States, not only in adult theaters, but also in respectable mainstream movie houses. With Behind the Green Door the Mitchell Brothers changed the face of the adult film industry.

Marilyn Chambers stars as Gloria Saunders, and she plays a girl that's being kidnapped, and forced to perform various sexual acts before an audience at an underground sex club. The plot line doesn't sound that complex, and it isn't either, but this movie has one great and interesting character played terrific by Marilyn Chambers. The story is also very artistically, stylish and most erotic. Behind the Green Door isn't "just a porn movie", is actually much closer to an art-movie. Is like, if Kubrick ever made porn, than I guess it would look something like Behind the Green Door.

Behind the Green Door is really a masterpiece in its genre, and one of the most important movies in the history of America. 9 out of 10.