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production almost foi
surrounded by more co
years, with the possibl
Last Tango in Paris an<
Screenwriter Gore V
project long before filr
of post-production and
same. (The current cr<
Gore Vidal, principal p
the production.")
After the picture hac
producer Bob Guccioi
unsatisfied with the an
returned to the studi
Lorenzo and Lori Wag
love scene which he ins
to its premiere.
Customs officials in j
picture to be brought
(where the picture was
be taken out of the coun
uf
The legal hassles fina
year, Caligula opened
Theatre (which, for the
The Penthouse East an<
erotic sculptures). It s
opening weeks (not sui
$7.50) and is still playin;
other cities. Eventual)
Carolina, which brings u
CAligula opens here, do i
The picture may have
rate) cast, including M
Sir John Gielgud, and
handsome sets, designe
director on several Fel
Caligula often tries to e
it and isn't the slightes
fact, it's sickening.
Scattered throughou
excess, there are seem
of these), evisceration
this fluid-letting is to
decadent.'' Well, who c
In today's society, decs
So, for that matter, a
show us a number of
great distance that w?
Very erotic, this Gucci)
I And if what (inrnnn
O'Toole and the rest
: mercifully, is allowed
only be called anti-acti
way through scene af
< brutally sadistic perl
portrays the Emperor
; goosing servant girls
i Theresa Ann Savoy U
Schnieder, who quit wh
the horse) is wooden as
an incestuous relations
History has been alt<
insane from the momei
According to most bo<
I ruled with genero^xty f
becoming vicious only i
The movie never exj
had - the Roman Sen
emperor. Short shrift i
< arranged for his assass
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1 Since Caligula is a bi
must conclude that its i
Guccione could devote
: PENTHOUSE to it. T1
coat parade may turn
being the ultimate obsc
ila' flops
> hndop.t'
>od cast
By David Baker
Flim Critic
on, is one of the most expensive fill
Kirno; ever produced, since it Deg
lr years ago, the movie has be
ntroversy than any film of the past t
e exceptions of Bernardo Bertolucc
i William Friedkin's Cruising.
idal had his name removed from t
ning was completed and, in the mi<
editing, director Tinto Brass did t
2dits read: "based on a screenplay
hotography by Tinto Brass, editing
i been in the can for several montl
ie (the publisher of PENTHOUSI
nount of hard-core sex in the pictui
io with model-actresses Anneka
;ner and filmed a ten-minute lesbi
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several countries refused to allow t
in and, at one point, those in IU
filmed) refused to allow the picture
[try.
lly subsided and on February 1 of th
in New York at the Trans-Lux Ea
> rtin nf flln film hn? 1. .1.1
. ? Mil VI mv Auilly lldd UCCU I CUUUUt
J redecorated with a half-dozen or s
;et several boxoffice records in il
prising, since tickets were and ar
g. In May, it opened in a dozen or s
ly, it may find its way to Sout
is to the reason for this review: Whe
not waste your money to see it!
?a well-respected (heretofore, at ar
alcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole ar
it may have some extraordinari
d by Danilo Donati (who served as a
lini films, including Satyrtcon, whi<
mulate), but it has no Dlot to sDeak
?t bit erotic. More often than not,
it the movie's 156 minutes of lui
es of castration, decapitation (doze
and urination. The sole reason for j
say: "Boy, those Romans sure we
ares that the Romans were decader
idence is nassp
ire orgies, but Guccione has seen fit
them, all photographed from such
i feel like we're watching flies ma
ane.
e does is anti-erotic, what McDow<
of the cast (save for Gielgud, wl
to die 20 minutes into the film) do c
ng. As Caligula, McDowell smirks 1
ter scene of perversion in his rrn
formance yet, while O'Toole (w
Tiberius) writhes around in togi
> auu luuiuuiiiig incomprenensiD
i last minute replacement for Mai
len she found out about the scene w
; the sister with whom Caligula shai
hip.
sred to fit the thesis that Caligula v,
nt he ascended to the thrnnp in V7 a
)ks on the period, however, Caligi
or the first eight months of his reij
after a severe illness.
jlores the virtues Caligula must ha
ate and people did elect him as th
is also given to the conspiracy whl
inationin 41.
list both sexually and historically, c
sole reason for being made was so tl
half of May's (and a portion of June
lat, plus the possibility that the ra
up at theatres in anticipation of
enity.
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