X-Rated Ambition  The Traci Lords Story (2003)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 2003
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times:
Format: colour
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: World Of Wonder for Channel 5
Executive Producers: Adam Perry, Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Production Executive: Helen Booth
Producer: Simon Kerslake
Production Manager: Claire Gooding

DIRECTION
Director: Simon Kerslake

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Cameraman: Daniel Dimitroff
Rostrum: Chris Shelley
Colourist: Nick Adams

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Mark Henson
Online Editor: Nick Arthur

MUSIC
Music: James Dorman

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Michael Velacicco
Dubbing Mixer: Stewart Harper

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Accountant: Michelle Kinsler
Production Team: John Bennetts, Mona Card, Helen Luke, Monica Salman
Archive: CNN; Conde Nast Publications Inc; Dugent Corporation; NBC News Archive; Web Entertainment Group Inc

CAST
Jo Unwin (narrator)
Traci Lords (in archive footage)
Amber Lynn (herself)
Mike Carpenter (himself)
Jerry Tanner (himself)
Nina Hartley (herself)
Ron Jeremy (himself)
Peter North (himself)
Tom Byron (himself)
Ginger Lynn (herself)
Bill Margold (himself)
Darryl Meissner (himself)
Jim South (himself)
Suze Randall (herself)
John Leslie (in archive footage (uncredited))
John Holmes (in archive footage (uncredited))
John H. Weston (himself)
Harry Reems (in archive footage (uncredited))

PLOT SUMMARY

A look back at the porn career of Traci Lords, told by some of the people she worked with.

CAPSULE REVIEW

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this doesn't shed any real light on Traci Lords and we're still no wiser as to what the real story of her time in porn actually was - did she hate it as much as she later claimed? Was it just a magnificently orchestrated con-trick to launch a career in mainstream films? We'll probably never know, but this is an entertaining piece nonetheless with a cast of famous names from the 80s who always seem on the verge of saying something big about Lords but bever quite do.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Television Distributors: Channel 5

LINKS

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Black Throat (1985)
New Wave Hookers (1985)
Talk Dirty To Me Part III (1984)

REFERENCES

OTHER SOURCES

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KEYWORDS

biography, documentary, film history, porn

Last Updated: 24 August, 2009