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Behind the Green Door

For the EP by Laurel Halo, see Behind the Green Door (EP).
Behind the Green Door
theatrical release poster
Directed byArtie Mitchell
Jim Mitchell
Screenplay byArtie Mitchell
Based onBehind the Green Door
short story
by Elliot Wax
Produced byArtie Mitchell
StarringMarilyn Chambers
CinematographyJon Fontana
Edited byJon Fontana
Music byDaniel Le Blanc
Distributed byMitchell Brothers Film Group
Release date
  • December 17, 1972 (1972-12-17)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$60,000
Box office$50 million[1]

Behind the Green Door is a 1972 American pornographic film, widely considered one of the genre's "classic" pictures and one of the films that ushered in the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984). Featuring Marilyn Chambers, who became a mainstream celebrity, it was one of the first hardcore films widely released in the United States and the feature-length directorial debut of the Mitchell brothers.[2]

Behind the Green Door was adapted from an anonymous short story of the same title, which was circulated by means of numerous carbon copies. The story's title references the 1956 hit song "Green Door", whose lyrics describe being denied entry to a raucous nightclub with a green door.[3] Though she plays the central character, Chambers does not have a single word of dialogue. The film is possibly the first feature-length American heterosexual hardcore feature to include an interracial sex scene.[4]

  1. ^ "Behind the Green Door (1972)". Worldwide Box Office. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
  2. ^ Goupil, Helene; Krist, Josh (2005). San Francisco: The Unknowao.uk/books?id=pXAsU1sQG1AC. Arsenal Pulp Press/Josh Krist. pp. 238–241. ISBN 1-55152-188-1.
  3. ^ Pennington, Jody W. (2007). The history of sex in American film. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-275-99226-2.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference twoninenine was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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