However, when Guccione chanced upon a preview screening of Tinto Brass's 'Salon Kitty', he knew he had found the right man for the job. Based on Suetonius's 'Lives Of The Twelve Caesars' and scripted by celebrated author and historian Gore Vidal, the film was produced by 'Penthouse' magazine publisher Bob Guccione, with the list of potential directors including the likes of John Huston and Nicolas Roeg. Notable for being the only major motion picture ever to star esteemed British actors of the calibre of McDowell, Gielgud, O'Toole and Mirren alongside scenes of extreme violence and explicit hardcore sex, CALIGULA is a true 'porn epic', a veritable catalogue of depravity the likes of which have never been seen in one single film before or since.Ī ridiculous and bombastic hymn to the decadence of the Roman Empire, this is definitely one movie that that has to be seen, if only to wonder, firstly, how the thing ever got off the ground, and secondly, how it was ever completed. Initially hauled over the coals (and drastically censored) in 1979 on the grounds that it was indecent and potentially obscene, now, almost 30 years later, the uncut version of CALIGULA has finally been granted an 18 Certificate by the BBFC. There are various versions of this movie, ranging from the heavily-truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 2-hour-40-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination–though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and did not involve the main cast members.The notorious and ludicrously opulent multi-million dollar 'porn epic' that sees esteemed British acting stars Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren being outrageously upstaged by graphic sequences involving anal fisting, explicit lesbian trysts, orgies and blow jobs (among other things), the uncut CALIGULA finally comes to DVD in September.ĬALIGULA: THE IMPERIAL EDITION comes as a four-disc set that features three separate versions of the film including the complete, fully uncut and uncensored version that sealed this demented film's reputation as one of the most controversial in cinema history. He also sleeps with his sister Drusilla, organizes elaborate orgies, and embarks on a fruitless invasion of Britain before meeting an appropriate end. He gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him.

The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign. ( 18+) Caligula 1979 English 720p BluRay Movie Info Director: Bob Guccione, Giancarlo Lui, Tinto BrassĪctors: Guido Mannari, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Teresa Ann Savoy

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