UNCUT VERSION OF CALIGULA TO BE RELEASED
Posted on August 27, 2008
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It was banned nearly 30 years ago for its graphic scenes of incest and real sex, the controversial Roman epic Caligula is set to be sold on the High Street after the British Board of Film Classification finally gave it the green light. The original 1979 movie was scripted by the writer and historian Gore Vidal and featured a host of stars including Helen Mirren, Peter O’Toole and Sir John Gielgud.
Bob Guccione, founder of pornographic magazine Penthouse, who produced and financed the film, felt it did not contain enough sex. He secretly filmed graphic real sex scenes performed by porn stars and inserted them into the final edit.
The film is available in this country on DVD, it is a heavily sanitised version and almost an hour shorter than the uncut Imperia edition.
It was banned nearly 30 years ago for its graphic scenes of incest and real sex, the controversial Roman epic Caligula is set to be sold on the High Street after the British Board of Film Classification finally gave it the green light. The original 1979 movie was scripted by the writer and historian Gore Vidal and featured a host of stars including Helen Mirren, Peter O’Toole and Sir John Gielgud.
Bob Guccione, founder of pornographic magazine Penthouse, who produced and financed the film, felt it did not contain enough sex. He secretly filmed graphic real sex scenes performed by porn stars and inserted them into the final edit.
The film is available in this country on DVD, it is a heavily sanitised version and almost an hour shorter than the uncut Imperia edition.
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