These scenes range from lesbian sex to incest and (implied) bestiality performed by Guccione’s "Penthouse Pets". So two years after the 115-minute film was released, an "uncut" version of Caligula was produced after an hour of hardcore pornographic action, which had been secretly filmed by him in 1979, was reinstated into the drama. At this point, Guccione, who had spent £17.5m on the movie, decided it needed spicing up. And it began promisingly enough with a learned screenplay by Gore Vidal.īut when the original film came out it was a critical flop. The film was supposed to chronicle the last four years in the life of the power-mad Caligula – the "viper in Rome's bosom" - whose brief reign as emperor ended with his murder in AD 41. Says a spokesman for Arrow: "When it came back uncut, we were stunned." But Sue Clark of the BBFC said: "Given that /Caligula/ is a film of historical interest, we felt we could pass it uncut." However, they've finally relented, a change of heart that has surprised the film’s distributors, Arrow Films. For more than 25 years, this raunchier version of the movie, which stars a youthful Helen Mirren ( pictured with fellow cast member Malcolm McDowell), has been considered too red hot to get past the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). An uncut version of the 1979 film Caligula, which was produced by the gold chain-wearing Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, is finally to be released on DVD.
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