Behind The Green Door - Classic Adult Movie Starring Marilyn Chambers
Classic porn movie Behind The Green Door depicts sex as ritual, sex as fantasy and sex as it could be only in the movies. In Behind The Green Door Marilyn Chambers is the all American girl who undeniably changed the face of the adult film industry.
Behind the Green Door was launched with a huge publicity campaign. Problem was, Marilyn Chambers had just done some modeling for Proctor & Gamble and Ivory Snow detergent. When the retailers noticed that the model featured on the boxes was a star of what turned out to be the biggest adult feature of all time, a massive recall was initiated to seize all the boxes - which are valuable collectors' items today.
Illegal copies of Behind The Green Door have been selling for $50 or more on eBay, but now you can own the original. The studio has released a pristine DVD edition of Behind The Green Door that will make you think they're right there with you.
Behind the Green Door is the great granddaddy of adult films, the brain child of Jim and the late Artie Mitchell, producers of adult film loops, who decided to make the first feature length adult film. Behind the Green Door would also lead us into the Golden Age of adult entertainment. Behind The Green Door ended up being a huge theatrical success, partially due to the fact that Marilyn Chambers became the Ivory Snow girl just before the film's release. So how has this important piece of cinematic history held up over the years. Depending on your tastes, very well. If you are a lover of the classics, Behind The Green Door is sure to please. Despite the fact that Behind the Green Door was shot on a shoestring budget, the sets are very well done. They are much better than what you will find in the average adult film being produced today. Most of Behind The Green Door, I believe, was shot at the Mitchell Brothers owned O'Farrell Theatre. The stage cast is great too, a rarity in the early seventies. Not all of the audience members are attractive though. For instance the corpulent woman in the audience is a major turn off, but casting like this makes the film seem more true to life that what you get today. The cast does a good acting job too, not that there is much for them to do. An interesting thing to note is the club's bouncer is played by Ben Davidson, an NFL player for the Oakland Raiders.
The sex in Behind The Green Door is slightly tame, especially by the standards of today. However, this film shows very successfully that you can tame sex and still have a very erotic film. There is a massive amount of variety in the scenes throughout Behind The Green Door to keep the scenes from getting monotonous. As the sex is not extreme, this film is a prime candidate for couples. For its time, however, the sex in Behind The Green Door was considered hardcore and in some places even controversial. Its rather amazing to see how much society has changed in 30 years. For viewers who care, there are no condoms used in the film. The sexual themes present in Behind The Green Door are vaginal and oral sex with fingering, lesbian and sex orgies.
This brings us toward the end of the film, which answers the age-old question of what a cum shot looks like in slow motion. What starts out as a well done very arty slow motion cum shot ends up becoming this hugely drawn out special effects laden scene. Instead of going on with the film after the cum shot is over, the cum shot ends up being shown over and over again repeatedly for several minutes with various types of visual special effects that I really could have done without. What may have been very impressive 30 years ago has turned into annoying today.
Behind The Green Door is well written and as with many of the porn films produced during the golden age, the writing resembles a mainstream film more than the adult films of today do. Not all the scenes are written to include sex, some are actually used to tell the story. The music is excellent as well. Behind The Green Door is not your average 70s porno sounding music track and adds to the originality of the film.
As with all porn films, not everything is perfect. The three biggest problems that plague Behind The Green Door are the earlier mentioned elongated cumshot sequence. The earlier mentioned casting of the audience, where some of them are not very pleasing to the eye, detracting from the orgy scene. The final major problem lies in the editing of the film. It can be very choppy at times which becomes distracting. However, Behind The Green Door proves that with its shoestring budget you don't need to use a lot of money to make a good porno.
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Behind the Green Door is a must see for any aficionado of adult films and a must have for any serious collector of the porno classics. Viewers who like the classics, porn with a plot and couples should find Behind The Green Door very enjoyable. Viewers who require nasty sex or hate a plot to invade their porn will want to skip this title. Although Behind The Green Door tends to sell for a rather high price, if you are interested in it, it is definitely worth the cost.
“The sex action in Behind The Green Door is sensual enough for the lady in your life to really get hot! Just not a bunch of slamm'n and the orgy scene at the end with real people add to the climax of the movie!”
“Larry Flynt indicated at I believe the 2006 porn star convention that Behind The Green Door is the best porn movie of all time. I agree.”
“Behind The Green Door is a porn classic for all the right reasons. Just one: in the last scene, when Marilyn Chambers has come off the ropes, Johnny Keyes is fucking her flat-out for a long time. The heat, sexual and literal, keeps building. You can see the flush build on Marilyn's chest, and then near the end a sweat breaks out over her whole body. This is no fake orgasm. In interviews both Johnny and Marilyn have said it was a real fuck for them, that the directors just let the cameras roll. You youngsters may be so used to the staged fuck/cums of this generation of porn stars that you don't recognize this, but for god's sake (and yours), add Behind The Green Door to your collection and watch this scene. The same thing happened to Marilyn in Insatiabile in the final scene with John Holmes. That movie's another classic worth keeping.”
“Behind The Green Door is the oddest weird artsy sex flick ever! Remember those old acid rock bands that used to have colorful splash screens projected behind the band? Well use your imagination! Combine that with several slow-mo cumshots. Slow spurting cumshots in psycedelic color! I love the way the penis kicks back slowly as each spurt is recorded in slow motion history!”