Behind the Green Door

Behind the Green Door is a 1972 American pornographic film that is widely considered one of the classic pictures of its genre and one of the films that ushered in the Golden Age of Porn, a period dated 1969 to 1984. It features Marilyn Chambers, who went on to become a mainstream celebrity, and it was one of the first hardcore films to be widely released in the United States. It was also the first feature-length film directed by the Mitchell brothers. The film was adapted from an anonymous short story of the same title that circulated through numerous carbon copies, and the story took its title from the 1956 hit song Green Door, whose lyrics describe being turned away from a raucous nightclub with a green door. Chambers plays the central character but speaks no dialogue in the film. It is possibly the first American feature-length heterosexual hardcore film to include an interracial sex scene.