Caligula (Imperial Edition)

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A notoriously excessive depiction of the riotously perverse and orgiastic days of Imperial Rome, here coming to you uncut and in its full explicit detail. Notable for being the only major motion picture ever to star esteemed British actors of the calibre of Malcolm McDowell, Sir John Gielgud, Peter O’Toole and Helen Mirren alongside scenes of extreme violence and explicit hardcore sex, Caligula infamously sees them being outrageously upstaged by notoriously graphic sequences in this catalogue of decadent depravity.

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. Unfortunately, director Tinto Brass and Guccione's respective visions of what the film should be were worlds apart and no sooner had shooting started than the artistic bickering began with Vidal, Guccione and Brass all falling out with each other. Vidal was barred from the set and once principal photography was complete, Guccione banned Brass from the editing room and, after shooting extra footage of hardcore sex scenes, the ‘Penthouse' boss set about editing the film himself.

The result is the stuff of legend - an insane, pornographic orgy of a film that details the rise and fall of the titular Roman Emperor (brilliantly played by McDowell), his sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute (Mirren), and his spectacularly inventive ways of dealing with his enemies, all garnished with the totally inappropriate sexual rompings of a dozen or so Penthouse Pets. If nothing else, Caligula truly is cinematic madness on the grandest scale.

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DVD Extras

4 discs; Disc 1: Caligula – The Uncut Version (156 mins); Dolby Digital 5.0 Surround Sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 audio options; Disc 2: Caligula – The Theatrical Version (102 mins); Theatrical trailer; Teaser trailer; North American R-rated trailer; North American bonus footage; behind the scenes footage; Disc 3: Caligula – The Alternative Version (153 mins); Dolby Digital 5.0 Surround Sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 audio options; deleted and alternate scenes; audio commentaries by Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren and Ernest Volkman (Penthouse magazine's on-set writer and reporter); Disc 4: Making of Caligula documentary; Making of Caligula featurette; My Roman Holiday with John Steiner; Caligula's Pet: A Conversation with Lori Wagner; Tinto Brass: The Orgy Of Power; stills galleries. Additional DVD-ROM content includes press kit notes; cast and crew biographies; script; novelization.

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