Behind the Green Door

Behind the Green Door
theatrical release poster
Directed by	Artie Mitchell Jim Mitchell
Screenplay by	Artie Mitchell
Based on	Behind the Green Door short story by Elliot Wax
Produced by	Artie Mitchell
Starring	Marilyn Chambers
Cinematography	Jon Fontana
Edited by	Jon Fontana
Music by	Daniel Le Blanc
Distributed by	Mitchell Brothers Film Group
Release date	December 17, 1972 (1972-12-17)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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]