What is less well known is that the Mitchells had artistic aspirations, and dreamed of making the adult film something more. And you know what? Mitchell Brothers movies really are better than average. Jim went to film school before becoming a porn-meister, and some talent shows through in glimpses. BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR is very "real movie." RESURRECTION OF EVE has some real emotional/narrative content. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FLEA was universally recognized as pushing the genre forward toward some sort of legitimacy, and GRAFENBERG SPOT is one of the most technically impeccable American adult productions. (I say American because even the most run-of-the-mill French XXX movie from 1975-1985 is usually of solid B-movie technical quality.) And, like so many eccentric directors, the Mitchells had their artistic Waterloo... the big ambitious movie that just doesn't quite work and bankrupts everybody. (Like Coppola's ONE FROM THE HEART.) In their case, SODOM & GOMORRAH, a trippy sex sci-fi mutation that just kind of wiped them out. After that, Jim used to say, "The only Art in this business is my brother." (The filming of S&G is covered in RATED X) So that's Jim and Artie Mitchell. Despite being some of the grungiest flesh peddlers of their time, they left just a little bit of art behind.